LSP 2062 - [Migrant Workers in the Americas]

(crosslisted)
(also HIST 2062, ILRLR 3062, LATA 2062) (HA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits.

Next Offered 2014-2015.

R. Craib.

This is an introductory course on the history and contemporary reality of migrant labor. Weekly sessions will combine short lectures and discussions of assigned reading. The emphasis is on migrant laborers in the Americas–primarily Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States - with a primary (but not exclusive) focus on agricultural workers in central and upstate New York. The course is a service learning course: that is, it combines weekly seminar sessions with weekly service work, intellectual labor with experiential labor, theory and practice. The basis premise for service learning in general, and most certainly for this course, is that all of us learn better and contribute more, if we engage in both reflection and action and understand how reflection and action constantly impact each other.