HIS 5090 Migrants, Smuggler, and the State: The Politics of Migration in Modern World History
This course is intended to provide a historical context behind the emergence of global migration control regimes, racialized quota systems, and measures to prevent human trafficking and smuggling that shape the migration process throughout much of the contemporary world. Furthermore, it will investigate how everything from legal definitions of citizenship to the issuing of passports and contemporary the contemporary understanding of national borders is rooted in the history of migration and mobility control. Because of the role that both migration and migration control has played in the history of the United States, we will discuss many of these issues within the context of that country's past and present. However, this course is global in scope, and with courses investigating themes such as Turkish guest workers in Germany, human trafficking in Dubai, and skilled migration in Hong Kong.