Migration Citizenship Course

1. Syllabus

1.1. Topic 1

1.2. Topic 2

1.3. Topic 3

1.4. Grading Plan

1.4.1. Final exam

1.4.2. Exercises

1.4.3. Attendance

2. Assignments

2.1. Misc Assignments

2.1.1. student email

2.2. S/R papers

2.2.1. wk2

2.2.2. wk3

2.2.3. wk4

2.2.4. wk5

2.3. midterm

2.4. Oral History Project

3. Welcome

3.1. About me

3.2. Intro to the course

3.2.1. Take immigration quiz - how much do you know?

3.2.2. Go over syllabus

3.2.3. Go over navigating website/mindmap

3.2.4. Go over access to readings/hard copy of readings?

4. Part I: State & Citizenship

4.1. Concepts

4.1.1. civil rights

4.1.2. progressive extension of rights

4.2. Rise of the Nation State

4.2.1. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Community

4.3. Basics of Citizenship

4.3.1. Aristotle

4.3.2. TH Marshall

4.3.3. Shklar

4.4. Postnationalism?

4.4.1. Sassen

4.4.2. Hansen

5. Part II: History of US Immigration

5.1. Open doors

5.1.1. Chinese

5.1.2. Mexicans

5.1.3. Irish

5.1.4. Germans

5.2. Door closes

5.2.1. Italians

5.2.2. Eastern European Jews

5.3. Door Reopens -- See Post-1965

6. Part V: Modern Debates

6.1. changing demographics of US

6.2. Macedo

6.3. Immigrants & identity

6.4. Immigrants & the economy

6.5. Immigrants & Native-Born Minorities

7. Part III: Theorizing Migration & Assimilation

8. Part IV: Post-1965 Immigration

8.1. What is the current US citizenship statutes?

8.2. Undocumented immigrants?

8.2.1. education rights Pyler vs. Doe

8.2.2. becoming citizens-- what does it take?

8.2.3. Criminalizing migration