Dec 26, 2024  
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2015-2016 Academic Catalog [Published Catalog]

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MRS 509/5209 - Migration, Integration and Citizenship (3 cr.)



Description
This course will examine the challenges brought to citizenship theory by migrations and migrants integration. Diverging definitions of citizenry embody and express distinctive understandings of nationhood, be it state-centered and assimilationist, ethnocratic and ‘differentialist’ or multiculturalist, that are deeply rooted in the political and cultural history of different nations. The course will focus on the various conceptions of citizenship and how they influence the integration and the migrants’ identity (re)constructions well as, to a certain extent, trigger a redefinition of receiving countries ‘cultural and political norms, including the very meaning of Nation-State.

Cross-listed
Same as SOC/ANTH 5209 .


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