SOC 342Migration and Legality

The course employs a multidisciplinary lens to examine the international legal systems concerned with regulating forced human migration. The course is organized around several key thematic issues such as border securitization, citizenship, intimate migrations, the criminalization of migration, detention, deportation, and resistance efforts. In addition to gaining familiarity with debates in these scholarly literatures, students will enhance their research and critical thinking skills by participating in activities such as group discussion questions or analyses of contemporaneous world events. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to understand, critically assess, and convey key debates relating to patterns of global mobility and strategies of migration control as well as apply course learnings to contemporary examples of migration governance and the struggle for mobility rights.