Topics vary. Using analytic skills learned in core courses, students work with an AUP faculty member, visiting scholar or professional in an area of current interest in the field to be determined by the instructor and the faculty of the Global Communications department.
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What can a sociocultural anthropological perspective contribute to our understanding of contemporary human migration? Why and how has international migration become a subject of study for sociocultural anthropologists? Through a selection of ethnographic studies drawn from all over the world we will examine diverse experiences of contemporary emigration and immigration. We will look at how contemporary migration has become a highly politicized issue, and what the impact has been on both host countries and immigrants, asylum-seekers, and refugees. We will examine the diverse reasons for leaving one’s “homeland”—including the role of violent conflicts, political repression, economic inequality, and climate change. We will also analyze contemporary “migration regimes” through the study of border policies and legal systems. Finally, we will situate the anthropology of im/migration within the disciplinary traditions of sociocultural anthropology—reversing the terms of our initial question—to consider what an understanding of contemporary human migration brings to anthropology today.
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Friday
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12:10
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15:05
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