This course explores questions around im/migration, citizenship, and belonging through interdisciplinary scholarship that attends to the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, and migration status and how nation-states discipline gendered bodies through immigration law and policy. The purpose of this graduate level course is to understand how `gender,¿ `race,¿ and `sexuality¿ impact im/migration trends, policies, patterns, and migrants¿ lived experiences. Moreover, we will explore the role of mass media in contributing to the material and symbolic violence enacted on im/migrant bodies within and beyond the United States. We will examine how migration occurs on a voluntary and involuntary basis between, within, and across borders and interrogate the role of settler colonialism, liberalism, and border imperialism in facilitating (and hindering) the mass movement of people and communities.
The course provides students with a theoretical grounding in the literature on gender and migration, including important contributions and highlighting theoretical exclusions. The course will present case studies of various communities of migrants, including immigrants to asylum-seekers, refugees, and marriage migrants. Various social movement efforts tied to the representation of migrants¿ issues will be examined. We will address the dynamics and debates that have informed queer movements, migrant justice movements, women¿s movements, and labor movements to assess the viability of coalition-building at the intersection of citizenship and belonging. Students are invited to draw on their own areas of expertise and disciplinary backgrounds in their work for the course.
Number of Credits
3
Litzy Galarza