FYS 77 Immigration, Citizenship, and Political Community
The mobility of humans both within and across international borders is a critical and contested issue around the globe. This course will examine many of the core dilemmas in the study of migration and citizenship from a social scientific perspective. While a significant portion of the course will be devoted to analysis of these questions from the vantage of the United States, we will also be examining these questions through a comparative lens. We will attempt to gain traction on a number of important questions. How are international borders constructed, both physically and psychologically? What is the relationship between conceptions of national identity and immigration policy? And, perhaps most crucially, does the “rich world” have a moral obligation to maintain relatively open borders and provide assistance to labor migrants and/or asylum seekers?
Prerequisite
Open only to first year frosh