PPOL4319 - Migration: From Despair to Hope

PPOL 4319 Migration: From Despair to Hope (3 semester credit hours) Adopting a multidisciplinary lens, this course explores the different paths along which humans have migrated across the earth over millennia. Nearer to the present, we discuss why and how individuals move, challenges they face on entering and adapting to newfound lands, social and political responses to migrants by host societies, and economic impacts of migration on places of arrival and places left behind. Focusing on recent trends, the course reviews debates about US and European immigration policies and policy reforms. Looking forward, we then try to imagine what future movement patterns might resemble under recurring political instability and unrelenting climate change. Students in the course will acquire a broad grasp of the complex dimensions of global migration, deeper awareness of migrant impacts on receiving and sending countries, and a robust capacity to assess and discuss immigration policy debates. (Same as IPEC 4319) (3-0) Y