AMST273
US Immigration: From the "Uprooted" to the Rise of the Immigration Regime
Subject code
AMST
Course Number
273
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
E. Bernardino
Course Long Title
US Immigration: From the "Uprooted" to the Rise of the Immigration Regime
Cross Listed Courses
Description
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" encapsulates the belief that the United States is a nation of immigrants, yet that can be an oversimplification of a deeply complex issue. This course explores the various reasons people migrate, acculturate, and what it means to be an "American" and an immigrant. Students review immigration records to examine how issues of poverty, sexual orientation, gender, race, and political affiliation affected how people "breathe free" and navigated the US immigration regime from the late-nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
Modes of Inquiry
Analysis and Critique [AC], Historical and Social Inquiry [HS]
Writing Credit
No writing credit
Departmental Course Attributes - Major/Minor Requirements
(History: Modern), (History: United States)
INDS Program Relationship
IDAM - AMST Program, IDGS - GSS Program