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Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2014
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MLSC 539 001 (CRN: 23266)
IMMIGRATION AND THE STATE
Long Title: IMMIGRATION AND THE STATE: EUROPE AND THE US IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Department: School of Continuing Studies
Instructor: Cohen, Daniel
Meeting: 6:15PM - 9:30PM R (31-MAR-2014 - 2-JUN-2014)
Part of Term: MLS Spring Session
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Section Max Enrollment: 0 (permission required) Department Permission Required
Section Enrolled: 11
Enrollment data as of: 18-MAY-2024 8:45AM
Description: The course traces the history of immigration within and to Europe and to the United States from the late 19th century to the present. How did the United States and the European states elicit, regulate or contain successive waves of labor and colonial migrants, stateless persons and asylum seekers? And what type of legal, political and cultural debates did the "immigrant question" raise in the public sphere since the advent of mass migration? We will discuss key issue regarding immigration including political asylum, guest-worker programs, assimiliation and integration debates, and immigrants and the welfare state