Course Description
Human migration is often described as a crisis or problem, but it
has been around for millennia. Only the barriers to movement are
new. This course considers the rise of restrictions and how
various nations deal with issues such as rights, citizenship, and
integration.
Athena Title
Global Migration
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
- By the end of this course, students will be able to arrive at conclusions about migration by gathering and weighing evidence, logical argument, and listening to counter argument.
- By the end of this course, students will be able to write stylistically appropriate papers and essays. Students will be able to analyze ideas and evidence, organize their thoughts, and revise and edit their finished essays.
- By the end of this course, students will be able to identify how the global history of migration has shaped social and cultural identities, encouraging them to understand diverse worldviews and experiences.
Topical Outline
- Day 1. About the class
- Day 2. Myths and models
- Day 3. Early humans on the move
- Day 4. Kingdoms and exiles
- Day 5: The Wandering Jew: Exile and welcome alien
- Day 6: From Slavs to slaves
- Day 7: Explorers to settlers
- Day 8: Anti-slavery and the birth of international human rights
- Day 9: Library session
- Day 10: Abolition and the rise of new forms of forced migration
- Day 11: Revolutionaries and famine migrants: the Irish, Germans, and Chinese
- Day 12: Midterm
- Day 13: Big agriculture 19th-century style and the rise of really mass migration
- Day 14: Nations, nationalism, and the new history of borders
- Day 15: The rise of bureaucracies of exclusion
- Day 16: Dynamiters! White labor migrants and the anarchist threat
- Day 17: Guestworkers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your visa, your passport, your residency permit
- Day 18: WWI, the invention of the refugee, and the Jewish refugee crisis
- Day 19: WWII, an even bigger refugee crisis, and the Cold War solution
- Day 20: Perpetual aliens: Why the U.S. created “illegal aliens”
- Day 21: Women, migration, citizenship
- Day 22: The invited deportable immigrants: undocumented
- Day 23: The invited deportable immigrants: guestworkers
- Day 24: Refugees and the new nativism
- Day 25: Review
