About Migration, Transnationalism, and Globalization
This course offers students an opportunity to explore and understand the global nature of contemporary social, economic, cultural and political change. An exploration of similarities and differences in refugee/Diaspora communities is given particular emphasis. Issues include relationships between place and identity, memory and identity, notions of home and homeland, gender and class, assimilation versus resistance, social and cultural changes induced by migration and the impact of Transnationalism. The course is divided into three parts to closely examine migration, Transnationalism, and globalization. Specifically, the first part will introduce students to the general feature of international migration. The second part deals with the concepts of Transnationalism, Diaspora, and refugees. The last part will briefly present the global/local issues.