ANTH 333 - Anthropology of Global Migration

(3 credits)
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or consent of instructor
See Addenda to the 2023/2024 Catalog   for changes to this course effective Spring 2024

This course examines the historical and contemporary causes and processes of (forced) migration and displacements leading to mass asylum-seeking, refugee camps and the refugee crisis. These causes and processes include colonialism, colonial legacies and the formation of modern nation-states; world capitalism and the growing North-South divide; civil wars and regional unrest due to political and religious conflicts; global warming, climate change and environmental crises; human trafficking and modern slavery. The course explores cases in the Americas, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe. Moreover, we utilize anthropological and interdisciplinary conceptual and theoretical frameworks to address national and international policies and politics as well as laws and organizations, transnational migratory patterns and practices, the development of diasporas and diasporic identity formation. Also, to better understand the contemporary migration processes, this course analyzes linkages to the homeland that migrants retain as well as new ones that they develop among themselves, contributing to globalization, the global economy and sustainable development. Offered alternate fall semesters.