Critical Social Inquiry 0238 - People out of Place: Global Migrations

This course will be organized around the following themes: 1. Intersectionality of systems of racialized violence in the US: Immigration control and domestic policing; mass incarceration and immigrant detention; 2. Global mobility as intrinsic to the restructuring of contemporary capitalism; therefore, studying "global migrations" is a critical vantage point for understanding contemporary capitalism, including questions of why do migrants leave their homes? And where do they (choose to) go? 3. A critical knowledge of migration governmentality, ie, the ways which people in motion are governed and resist; the power to regulate, regiment, control, and channel, human mobility; and multiple resistances 4. Interrogation of key concepts: citizenship, sovereignty, borders, nation-state, statelessness, belonging. Key Words: Migration, borders, refugees, nation-state

In/Justice Students should generally expect to spend 8 hours a week on work outside of class time. The content of this course addresses issues of Race and Power.