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ANTH 635

Anthropology of Global Migration

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelGraduate
Standard

Overview

Description

Examines migration at a local and global scale with a focus on its causes and consequences.

Units

Lecture3

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Offering

Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years

Terms

spring

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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.