TCCS 712 Circuits of Migration

The historical trajectory of immigrants from Europe to the United States has shaped much of the theory, policy, and social relations toward immigrant integration through the first half of the Twentieth Century. Since the latter half of the century, due in large part of the watershed Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 and the increasing impact of globalization and war on population movements, immigration from the Global South, particularly Southeast and South Asia, the Caribbean, Africa, and Central and South America, has changed the experiences of immigrants and refugees to the United States. Only recently has research begun to consider the fundamental ways in which we must reconceptualize traditional migration processes from universalized, linear trajectories to dynamic processes that are cyclical, uneven, nuanced, heterogeneous, and intersectional. This course will examine the local-regional-global relationships to cultural identity, social relations, public policy, and Critical Race Theory as it is experienced by immigrants and refugees from the Global South on individual, communal, and transnational scales. We will discuss immigrant and refugee integration, community development, and identity formation as they are constructed or negotiated across transnational, interstitial spaces.

3 Credit(s)