Migration, Globalization, and U.S. Education

Course Description

Globalization and mass migration are reconfiguring the modern world and reshaping the contours of nation-states. This course focuses on the experiences of the youngest members of these global migration patterns--children and youth--and asks: What do these global flows mean for educating young people to be members of the multiple communities to which they belong? What is globalization and why is it leading to new patterns of migration? How do children and youth experience ruptures and continuities across contexts of migration? How do language policies affect young people's capacity to be educated in a new land? What does it mean to forge a sense of belonging and citizenship in a "glocalized" world, and how does this challenge our models of national citizenship? How are the processes by which young people are incorporated into their new country entwined with structures of race, class, and gender? Drawing on fiction, autobiography, and anthropological and sociological research this class will explore these questions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Code

15:310:568

Credits

3

Subject

310

Programs That Include This Course

• Doctoral Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) Programs - For Students Entering before 2025
• Doctoral Ed.D Concentration in Education, Culture, and Society
• Doctoral Ed.D. Concentration in Educational Leadership
• Master's Ed.M. in Education, Culture and Society