Overview
Description
Examines migration at a local and global scale with a focus on its causes and consequences.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- articulate and evaluate different theoretical approaches to the study of the anthropology of global migration, and explain their foundations in social theory.
- define and criticize key concepts in the anthropology of global migration, such as push and pull factors, return migration, pendular movement.
- evaluate and apply different methodological approaches to studying the anthropology of global migration, and demonstrate how anthropological methods enhance the study of migration in global contexts.
- demonstrate how migration changes in light of historical and contemporary local and global processes.
- apply, orally, in writing, and in practice, the theoretical, empirical, and/or methodical issues covered by the course to research questions in the Anthropology of Global Migration.