Using theoretical, ethnographic, and autobiographical literature from different world regions, we will explore three central questions: 1) How do people make the decision to move? 2) How do political policies structure the life chances of im/migrants in the "global north"? 3) How do im/migrants transform their own life situations and communities?
Outcomes: Students will understand: an anthropological approach to the study of migration; leading theories of migration; contemporary migration patterns; im/migrant labor; factors that shape the formation of im/migrant communities
Outcomes: Students will understand: an anthropological approach to the study of migration; leading theories of migration; contemporary migration patterns; im/migrant labor; factors that shape the formation of im/migrant communities