Anthropology 211 - Forced Migration, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid

Is mass forced migration unique to recent world history? Can the history of the nation-state also be read as a history of refugee making? Are contemporary humanitarian and human rights frameworks and institutions adequate to the task of addressing protracted statelessness, and forced migration brought about by the intersection of conflict, economic collapse, and climate change? These questions will be examined through anthropological, historical, and philosophical scholarship on forced migration, citizenship, nationalism, human rights, and humanitarianism. (E)