CLCS 342 On Refugees and Forced Migration in Europe
This course will focus on forced migration and asylum regimes in Europe over the last ten years. It will offer an interdisciplinary approach to the political, social, and legal backdrop to forced migration while paying attention to imaginative responses in cultural texts that have both expressed and helped to shape attitudes and positions towards refugees. Throughout this course, students will study ideas of human rights as they relate to refugees, political and theoretical concepts that help students to understand notions of belonging, sovereignty, statelessness, and welcome. Students will also study a range of cultural narratives, including films and videos, literary texts and public art that bring their own positions and critical interventions to bear on the emergent discourses surrounding refugees.