UPA 672 - The Immigrant City

Unit(s): 4

This course offers an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the layers of the immigrant city, with an emphasis on unpacking the global and structural forces that create and shape waves of human migration and the ways that these forces intersect with global urbanism. With US cities as our focus, we look at urban places and the range of ways that immigration crafts and shapes cities. Among other things, we consider: urban politics built around immigrant identity, the role of immigrants in shaping local economies, the trans-urban and trans-national networks that sustain immigrant communities, the role of diaspora in both place-making and urban social justice, and the intersection between national and local immigration policies. Student research connects the global to local through case studies developed in connection with Bay Area immigrant community organizations.

College of Arts and Sciences