Critical Social Inquiry 0262 - Global Migrations: Bodies Borders, Documents

Millions of people are living outside the borders of their home countries as expatriates, migrant workers or transnational managers of the global economic order, as refugees, displaced persons fleeing violence and persecution, and as people without papers. Bodies are thus a key part of the package of the multiple transborder flows of globalization, and they are produced, differentiated and understood through discourses of citizenship, national security, and universal human rights that are frequently at odds. The course will investigate critical questions about the relations of power at issue in technologies of citizenship, surveillance, exclusion and resistance in an effort to understand the condition of being out of place in a globalized yet still strongly territorial world of nation-states. Key Words: Migration, borders, refugees, nation-state

In/Justice This course includes both in-person and remote elements, but can accommodate fully remote students. Students should generally expect to spend 8-10 hours of work a week outside of class.