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ANTHROP 4MM3

BORDERS, MIGRATION, REFUGE

Undergraduate

Winter 2026 · C01

Readings

  • Etext The Land Of Open Graves - Permanent Access
    De Leon, Jason · Required
    ISBN 9780520958685; 9780520282759
  • The Time Beneath The Concrete Palestine Between Camp And Col
    Nasser Abourahme · Required
    ISBN 9781478031444
Winter 2026 · C01

Topics

  • Callan Wink, “A Refugee Crisis,” The New Yorker , August 20, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/20/a-refugee-crisis
  • Alice Elliot, “Forceful Hope ,” AllegraLab , April, 2016, https://allegralaboratory.net/forceful-hope/
  • Miriam Ticktin, “Thinking Beyond Humanitarian Borders,” Social Research: An International Quarterly 83, no. 2 (2016): 255-271.
  • Liisa Malkki, “Speechless Emissaries: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and Dehistoricization,” Cultural Anthropology 11, no. 3 (August 1996): 377-404
  • Dina Nayeri, “The Ungrateful Refugee,” The Guardian , April 4, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/04/dina-nayeri-ungrateful-refugee
  • Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (San Diego: Harcourt, 1968), 290-302
  • Giorgio Agamben, “We Refugees,” trans. Michael Rocke, Symposium 49, no. 2 (1995): 114-119
  • Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003)
  • Susan Sontag, On Photography (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973), 16-24

Readings

  • The Time Beneath the Concrete: Palestine Between Camp and Colony
    Nasser Abourahme · 2025 · Required
    Duke University Press · ISBN 978-1-4780-3144-4
  • The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
    Jason De León · 2015 · Required
    University of California Press · ISBN 9780520282759
  • Regarding the Pain of Others
    Susan Sontag · 2004 · Required
    ISBN 9780312422196
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