Sociology of Immigration

This graduate seminar offers a structured overview of core theoretical frameworks and central empirical debates in the sociology of immigration, situating migration within broader systems of mobility and incorporation. The course examines the causes of migration and the political and institutional governance of mobility. It also analyzes processes of racialization and stratified incorporation, with particular attention to the role of state power and labor-market dynamics in producing and regulating the boundaries of membership and structuring social inequality. The seminar engages foundational and contemporary scholarship across key domains, including migration theory, legal status, labor markets, and migration brokerage. It develops an analytic framework for understanding migration as both a system of inequality and a field of social and political contestation.