Faculty First Year Seminars 191JRN3 - Legal&Undocumented Immigration

Who are America?s legal and undocumented immigrants? Why do they come to America? Why do they leave their home countries? What?s it like being a legal or an undocumented immigrant in America? How do they interact with American institutions (e.g., police, schools, hospitals, churches, neighborhood organizations, social clubs, the labor market, etc.)? What are the laws constricting the lives of immigrants? What are their expectations, values, beliefs, assumptions and dreams? How do other American groups perceive immigrants?

First-year (R1ST)