HIST 6851 - [Refugees]

(crosslisted)
(also LSP 6851)

Fall. 4 credits.

Next offered 2014-2015. Permission of instructor required. Co-meets with AMST 4851/HIST 4851/LSP 4851.

M. C. Garcia.

Since World War II, over 4 million people have migrated to the United States as refugees. In this seminar we will examine some of these refugee migrations and the ways these migrations challenged our understanding of the United States as a “haven for the oppressed.” We will examine the crafting of refugee/asylum policy, the role of nongovernmental actors in influencing policy, and the ways policy reflected foreign-policy interests and security concerns. The last weeks of the course will pay particular attention to our changing definitions of who ‘merits’ asylum in the United States since the end of the Cold War.