Dept Sem:Diaspora Pol Natlsm

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Diaspora politics and nationalism will be an exciting class about the shifting nature of boundaries loyalty and citizenship in our time. It will deal with the structure of states and the identity of peoples from a variety of perspectives; historical, sociological, legal and of course political. We will probe relations of states and ethnicity, evaluate kinship ties across frontier and examine how people inside the states relates to kin in other countries in economic, cultural, and political ways. We will underscore difference in approaches to "host" and "home" countries in the West the Islamic world, and in Asia. We will see how politics is mobilizing people around "homelands" even when people are far removed, and when they are in the "near-abroad".