Undocumented America

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course traces the historical construction of the undocumented subject in the United States. Through case studies, and primary and secondary sources, we will explore the lives and experiences of people who have lived outside of the boundaries of citizenship. This will include an examination of the rise of the border patrol, the legal mechanisms for incarceration of immigrants and the creation of detention and deportation regimes. In addition, we will study the activism of undocumented communities and their claims to American cultural citizenship.