This course critically examines migration as a complex, global phenomenon shaped by race, gender, class, dis/ability, and environmental factors. We study who moves, who cannot, and who is undesired to move, analyzing refugees, labor, and environmental migrants. Topics include biopolitics of mobility, settler colonialism, globalization, and digitalization. Through historical and contemporary perspectives, students will explore migration's ethical, political, and sociological dimensions, and how it's represented in popular culture and theory.
This course critically examines migration as a complex, global phenomenon shaped by race, gender, class, dis/ability, and environmental factors. We study who moves, who cannot, and who is undesired to move, analyzing refugees, labor, and environmental migrants. Topics include biopolitics of mobility, settler colonialism, globalization, and digitalization. Through historical and contemporary perspectives, students will explore migration's ethical, political, and sociological dimensions, and how it's represented in popular culture and theory.
