SOCI 3230

Students will critically examine the causes and consequences of international migration, refugee movements, and the establishment of ethnic communities outside of their countries of origin in the Canadian and global contexts. They will explore the roles which environmental crises, colonization, ethnic strife and cleansing, wars, political and economic crises, disease, and cultural issues play in relation to international migration. How gender, class, ethnicity, racialization, sexuality, ability, and legal status impact migration and settlement will also be explored. Students will further study the formation of ethnic communities in settler-colonial contexts and in relation to the Indigenous peoples on whose unceded territories international migration and settlement sometimes take place. Note: This is a seminar course.