HOW TO PREPARE FOR CLASS
For each class date listed below, there is a topic, assigned reading(s), and any assignment due.
- To prepare for class, read and take notes on the assigned reading listed for the date, before we meet for class.
- Be sure to note the topic of the day and consider how the assigned readings help you to better think about or understand our topical focus. Turn the title of the article into a question and use your notes to produce the answer.
- Once you arrive to class, review your notes on the reading(s) so you are prepared for the class discussion and any possible quizzes.
- So for class on 1/30, read Johnson’s chapter on Population Ecology before class and be sure to take good notes. Jot down any questions you may have and highlight any areas in the reading you found significant.
SCHEDULE
Unit 1. Thinking Critically about Immigration
Week 1
1/28: Course Introduction
- No Readings
1/30: Understanding Human Migration
- Johnson – Population Ecology (password-protected)
Week 2
2/4: Understanding Human Migration II
- Hightower – Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There
- Turrentine- Climate Change Is Already Driving Mass Migration
2/6: Understanding Human Migration II
- Massey – Why Does Immigration Occur? (password-protected)
Week 3
2/11-2/13: Immigration Issues in a Nation of Immigrants
- The U.S. Immigration System May Have Reached a Breaking Point
- Frum – How Much Immigration Is Too Much?
Week 4
2/18-2/20: Race and ‘American’ Identity
- Spickard – Immigration, Race, Ethnicity & Colonialism (password-protected)
- 2/18—pgs 1-18; stop before Race v. Ethnicity
- 2/20—pgs 18-28; start with Race v. Ethnicity
Week 5
2/25: Critiquing Assimilation
- Bashi Treitler – The Irish, Chinese, Italians, and Jews: Successful Ethnic Projects (password-protected, also on ProQuest)
- Gordon – Assimilation in American Life (password-protected)
- Op-Ed #1 Due 2/28
2/27: Critiquing Assimilation
- Molina – The Myth of the Unassimilable Mexican
- Bashi Treitler – The Native Americans, Mexicans, and Afro-Caribbeans (password-protected, also on ProQuest)
Unit 2. The Legal Landscape: Law, Policy and Social Control
Week 6
3/3: Legal Transformations
- Vargas – My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
- Ngai – How Grandma Got Legal
- Op-Ed #2a-Due 3/5
3/3: Legal Transformations
- Ioffe – This Is What It’s Like to Come to the United States as a Refugee
- Bayoumi – How Being Thrown in Jail After 9/11 Changed One Arab Girl’s View of America
- Op-Ed #2a-Due 3/5
Week 7
3/10-3/12: Immigration Law: Past & Present
- Okrent – A Century Ago, America Built Another Kind of Wall
- The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act
- CLASS SURVEY for MOVING ONLINE
Week 8
3/17-3/19: The Criminalization of Immigrants
- Macías-Rojas – A New Enforcement Terrain (password-protected)
- Black Undocumented Immigrants & Deportation
Week 9
3/24-3/26: Naturalization & Citizenship
- Aptekar – Making Sense of Naturalization (password-protected)
- Felix – Dreams of Citizenship, Naturalization Nightmare (password-protected)
- Aptekar – Celebrating Immigrants (password-protected)
- Op-ed#2b- Due 3/27
Week 10
3/31-4/2: Gender & Sexuality
- U.S. Immigration Law Treats Women And Men Differently
- Longo – Mothers and Moneymakers (password-protected)
Week 11-12
4/7-4/16: Spring Break!
Week 13
4/21-4/23: Op-Ed Project
- Group Peer Review
- Group Editing/Writing Sessions
- Op-Ed Draft-4/21
Unit 3. A More Perfect Union: Immigrant Integration
Week 14
4/28-4/30: The U.S. Racial Hierarchy & the Racialization of Immigrants
- Ocampo – Are second-generation Filipinos ‘becoming’ Asian American or Latino (password-protected)
- Zopf – A Different Kind of Brown (password-protected)
Week 15
5/5: Contexts of Reception
5/7: Immigration Reform
- Brown & Jones- Immigrants’ Rights Are Civil Rights (password-protected)
- Caravan, Invasion, Exodus
- Op-Ed Final Due 5/8
Week 16
5/12-5/14: In-Class Exam Review
FINAL EXAM 5/21
