This course will situate current transnational migration phenomena among the larger history of migration from the colonial era to today. We will wrestle with how to study migration in an era of unprecedented migrant mobility as well as a global rise in xenophobic, right-wing, and nationalist political movements. Changes in the social trajectory of migrants, as well as the study of migration, will be explored, such as the transition from forced and settler-colonial migration to post-colonial migration, the assimilationist perspective to the transnational migration approach to multi-stage migration, transit migration, and donkey routes that take today¿s migrants through a variety of countries on a quest for a better life.
