Forced Migration: Refugees, Exiles, and Displaced Persons INTL 4100 ~ Spring 2022

Forced Migration: Refugees, Exiles, and Displaced Persons INTL 4100 ~ Spring 2022Dr. Katherine Luongo [email protected] Office Hours: by appt. [virtual and outside] COURSE DESCRIPTION 60 million people aroun ...

Forced Migration: Refugees, Exiles, and Displaced Persons INTL 4100 ~ Spring 2022Dr. Katherine Luongo [email protected] Office Hours: by appt. [virtual and outside] COURSE DESCRIPTION 60 million people around the world are currently displaced by war and other forms of violence. While the plights of displaced people have figured prominently in media, politics, and popular consciousness, the history of forced migration and processes of seeking and granting refuge are often missing or poorly understood. This course examines the history and politics of forced migration, concentrating on the negative “push” factors that force people to migrate and the positive “pull” factors that motivate them to seek sanctuary in particular places. It traces the development of the legal and institutional frameworks that govern forced migration, and analyzes the political and humanitarian implications of forced migration. Moving away from dominant views of displaced people as “victims,” indeed as “problems” to “solved,” this course addresses displaced people as complex historical actors whose experiences are tied to legacies and processes of imperialism, state violence, war, and globalization. Course Objectives • Explain and interpret the key forces that have shaped forced migration over the last century • Explain and interpret the structures and functions of the global refugee regime; evaluate change and continuity across the regime • Become familiar with the diverse experiences of forced migration in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and North America over the last century • Analyze forced migration from a variety of theoretical perspectives in history, political science, development studies, law, and anthropology • Gather and analyze primary sources pertaining to forced migration • Plan, research, and write a sustained piece of historical-political research on a crisis of forced migration in the last century Required Texts • Hassan Akkad, Hope Not Fear: Finding My Way from Refugee to Filmmaker to NHS Hospital Cleaner and Activist (London: Bluebird-MacMillan, 2021). • Behrouz Boochani, No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (Sydney: Picador, 2018). • Dina Nayeri, The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You (New York: Catapult Books, 2019). • Ben Rawlence, City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp (London: Picador, 2016). • Peter Showler, Refugee Sandwich: Stories of Exile and Asylum (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006). • Daniel Trilling, Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe (London: Verso, 2018). • Clementine Wamayira, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After (New York: Penguin Random House, 2018). Films & Documentaries Animations: Refugees, Migrants, IDPs, & Asylum-Seekers (2017). UNHCR. Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War (2016). Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky. Conventional Revolution: Raphael Lemkin and the Crime Without a Name (n.d.). Fa