SOC 352 - Global Migration & Transnational Communities

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR (students beginning prior to Fall 2024): Meets general academic requirement DE.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology or instructor permission.
This seminar will explore the global flow of people across national boundaries in the late twentieth century and the ways in which these dispersed peoples build and maintain social networks across national borders. As such, we will be looking at the reasons that have impelled people to move about the globe, the ways that transnational social identities are being constructed among globally dispersed peoples, and the challenges that new social formations pose to the dominance of the nation-state as the primary source of social identities and political loyalties. This course will survey key current theoretical debates in the study of international migration with an emphasis on related literature dealing with gender, race and ethnicity, transnational practices and identities and cultural hybridity. The course is anchored in the US case, but we will consider other nations and the lessons they provide.