Graduate Courses
SOWK 730: Migration Dynamics and U.S. Social Policy
Description
This course offers a historical and contemporary overview of U.S. migration patterns and policies, beginning with the arrival European settler colonists, through the human trafficking of slavery, the forced internal displacement of indigenous people, the Great Migration, the major migratory flows of the 19th and 20th centuries, to contemporary migration dynamics.
In addition, the course explores some of the social policy and social welfare concerns associated with contemporary migration. This examination considers the social, political, environmental, and economic causes and consequences of migration; public policy regarding migration and the rights of immigrants; and the roles of governmental and nongovernmental local, national, and international organizations. Social justice themes related to migration are also explored.
