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Anthropology
Description: This seminar explores why migrants leave their home countries, how they experience migration and adaptation to their host countries, and the economic, social, and cultural effects migration has in sending and receiving countries. Discussions will include migrant and refugee rights, discrimination, transnational families and identities, human trafficking and labor rights, notions of citizenship, and diasporic communities. We will consider how an anthropological approach might enrich efforts to improve conditions for migrants and challenge nativist sentiment and policy. Letter grade only.
Units: 3
Sections offered: Spring 2025
Course Attributes:
Anthropology
Term : Fall 2025
Catalog Year : 2025-2026
ANT 230 - Global Migration And Human Rights
Description: This seminar explores why migrants leave their home countries, how they experience migration and adaptation to their host countries, and the economic, social, and cultural effects migration has in sending and receiving countries. Discussions will include migrant and refugee rights, discrimination, transnational families and identities, human trafficking and labor rights, notions of citizenship, and diasporic communities. We will consider how an anthropological approach might enrich efforts to improve conditions for migrants and challenge nativist sentiment and policy. Letter grade only.
Units: 3
Sections offered: Spring 2025
Course Attributes:
- LS: Global Diversity
- GS: Global Diversity
- GS: Social & Political Worlds
- GS: Social & Political Worlds + Global
- LS: Social and Political Worlds
- LS: Social & Political Worlds + Global