SOCI 595. Migration Governance and Stratification.

Examination of how states and other actors govern the movement of people across international borders, and how this governance contributes to new and ongoing patterns of stratification by race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality. Topics include: theoretical paradigms for understanding migration governance and its relation to inequalities; the economic, social, and political factors that influence immigration and refugee policy making; the social construction of migrant categories in historical perspective; the role of international organizations and non-state actors in migration governance; and the relationship between migration governance and migrants' experiences of economic, social, and political stratification.