CHST132 CH

PO

This course is designed to provide students with a critical introduction to contemporary immigration issues affecting Latino/a communities in the United States. We will examine the complex relationship and organizing categories, such as citizenship, race, gender, class, and sexuality that are mobilized to explain immigration issues. We begin by exploring the social and historical specificities of U.S. immigration policy and mechanisms of immigration control that produce different types of legal and undocumented migrations. We move towards how globalization and U.S. imperialism shape immigration patterns. Finally, we end with some strategies immigrants engage in to secure rights. Topics for discussion include the racialization of immigrants, the role of immigrant workers in the U.S., undocumented immigration, border militarization, and the different forms of political participation that immigrants engage in.

PO Area 3 Requirement, PO Speaking Intensive, Chicanx-Latinx Studies, PO Writing Intensive Req