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ANTH205

Citizenship, Borders, and Belonging

Subject code

ANTH

Course Number

205

Department(s)

Instructor(s)

J. Lyon

Course Long Title

Citizenship, Borders, and Belonging

Cross Listed Courses

Description

Increasing levels of globalization have prompted scholars to predict the diminishing importance of national borders. Contrarily, in the age of detention, deportation, and refugee crises, citizenship has gained renewed importance. In this course, students explore different ways of organizing citizenship around the world from multiple perspectives including those of refugees, visa seekers, unauthorized immigrants, soldiers, and mothers, among others. They examine how formal framings of rights are shaped by a politics of representation where the ideal citizen is crafted and contested. They also consider how those excluded from legal and cultural citizenship form alternative structures of belonging.

Modes of Inquiry

Analysis and Critique [AC], Historical and Social Inquiry [HS]

Writing Credit

No writing credit

INDS Program Relationship

IDLL - LALS Program

GEC This Course Belongs To

-

Class Restriction

Exclude First Years

Offering Frequency

Normally offered every year