ETHS 302 Immigrant Communities and the Trajectories of Othering

General

• Compare and contrast immigration experiences across time, place, generation, racialization, changing racial formations, and the various factors motivating mobility.
• Explain how human migration interlinks with a number of other aspects of globalization such as but not limited to relationships among nations, racism and racial discrimination, economic policies, transnational business, trade, politics and policies, war, non-governmental organizations, popular culture, technologies, and other events that impact more than one country.
• Recognize racial discourses (including white supremacy) that inform immigration conversations and conceptions of immigrants in popular culture in the United States.
• Analyze the ways immigration policy and immigration enforcement in the U.S. is socially constructed, politicized, and racialized.
• Distinguish the roles that racism and white supremacy have played in the history and development of our understandings of immigration, the immigrant, and our ideal of the United States as a "nation of immigrants."