Immigration to the United States.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Surveys patterns of migration to the United States from colonial times to the present. Considers migration to the United States as part of the evolving global labor market and colonial expansion; the relationship of immigration to nation-building, westward expansion, foreign policy and national identity; the legal regulation of immigration; the political debates surrounding immigration; and the experience of immigrants.