ETHSM-3000-2: Migrants, Exiles, Refugees.
Spring 2026
- Subject: Critical Ethnic Studies - Seminar
- Type: Seminar
- Delivery Mode: In-Person
- Level: Undergraduate
- Course Dates: January 20, 2026 — May 11, 2026
- Meetings: Mon 12:15-02:45PM, Hooper GC - GC2
- Instructor: Lydia Nakashima Degarrod
- Units: 3.0
- Enrolled: 8/16 Waitlist
Lydia Nakashima Degarrod
Senior Adjunct, Critical Studies Program
Description:
The United Nations has reported that the number of displaced people-due to war conflict, persecution, and poverty-- in the world has surpassed 60 million, larger than the populations of many countries of the world. This anthropological course will examine the roots of these forms of forced migration, the new formations of identity, and the emergent concepts of home and belonging.Critical Ethnic Studies 3000-level seminars deepen students’ knowledge of the fundamental theoretical and political questions regarding the social construction of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class from both domestic and global perspectives. The seminars utilize decolonial, transnational and intersectional approaches for producing knowledge about resistance, power, oppression, and systems of knowledge from the interdisciplinary fields of critical ethnic studies: Africana studies, African-American Studies, Asian American studies, Indigenous studies, Chicano/a /x and Latino /a/x studies, Women’ studies, border studies, cultural studies, and global racialized and global silenced communities. Courses can be in-person, hybrid, or online.
Pre-Requisites and Co-Requisites:
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