Courses on Economic/Social Factors of International Migration

ECON 114. Economics of Immigration (4)    
Impact of immigration on the U.S. economy. Empirical evidence on the labor market and fiscal impacts of immigration. Consequences of U.S. immigration policies on the economy. Prerequisites: ECON 1A-B or ECON 1 and 3.

ECON 162. Economics of Mexico (4)     
Survey of the Mexican economy. Topics such as economic growth, business cycles, saving-investment balance, financial markets, fiscal and monetary policy, labor markets, industrial structure, international trade, and agricultural policy. Prerequisites: ECON 1A-B or ECON 1 and 3.

ETHN 260. Transnationalism and Borderlands: The Local and Global
This course critically reviews the analytical frameworks of transnationalism and borderlands. The goals are to assess traditional and current social science practice on immigration, identity, and community studies, and to understand how diverse peoples engage and participate in global processes.

ETHN 116. The United States-Mexico Border in Comparative Perspective (4)   This course critically explores the U.S.-Mexico frontier and the social-cultural issues on both sides of the international demarcation. Social-historical and political-economic patterns illuminate border life, ethnic identity, social diversity, and cultural expression. Border ethnography is complemented by film and music.

ETHN 118. Contemporary Immigration Issues
This course examines the diversity of today's immigrants—their social origins and contexts of exit and their adaptation experiences and contexts of incorporation.

ETHN 129. Asian and Latina Immigrant Workers in the Global Economy (4)      This course will explore the social, political, and economic implications of global economic restructuring, immigration policies, and welfare reform on Asian and Latina immigrant women in the United States. We will critically examine these larger social forces from the perspectives of Latina and Asian immigrant women workers, incorporating theories of race, class, and gender to provide a careful reading of the experiences of immigrant women on the global assembly line. (Cross-listed with USP 135.)

ETHN 134. Immigration and Ethnicity in Modern American Society
Comparative study of immigration and ethnic-group formation in the United States from 1880 to the present. Topics include immigrant adaptation, competing theories about the experiences of different ethnic groups, and the persistence of ethnic attachments in modern American society. Requirements will vary for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students. Graduate students may be required to submit a more substantial piece of work. (Cross-listed with HIUS 180.)

ETHN 144. Bilingual Communities in the U.S.A. (4)     
This course compares the many ways of “doing being bilingual” that exist among communities of speakers of varied national origins, generations, networks, localities, races, classes, and genders. Of particular interest are the varied types of bilingual individuals and linguistic repertoires that exist in communities of Native American, Chicano/Latino, and Asian origin, and the implications of shifting and hybrid linguistic identities for the drawing of community boundaries and the shaping of national language policy. Specific topics include factors that promote language loss or maintenance in families, the linguistic and cultural repercussions of code switching and word borrowing, bilingual education, linguistic profiling, and language ideologies.

Soc/B 125. Sociology of Immigration (4)   Immigration from a comparative, historical, and cultural perspective. Topics include: factors influencing amount of immigration and destination of immigrants; varying modes of incorporation of immigrants; immigration policies and rights; the impact of immigration on host economies; refugees; assimilation; and return migration. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.

Soc/B 127. Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity (4)     Examination of the role that race and ethnicity play in immigrant group integration. Topics include: theories of integration; racial and ethnic identity formation; racial and ethnic change; immigration policy; public opinion; comparisons between contemporary and historical waves of immigration. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.

Soc/B 133. Immigration in Comparative Perspective (4)    Societies across the world are confronting new immigration. In this course, we will focus on Europe , Asia , and North America , and examine issues of nationalism, cultural diversity and integration, economic impacts, and government policy. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.

SOCG 282 Immigration and Citizen
Alternative theories of the relations of immigrants and host societies, and an examination on the debates on, and dynamic of, immigration expansion and restriction. Comparison of the bearing of liberal, communitarian, and ethnic citizenship discourses on the inclusion and exclusion of immigrants and their descendants.

Courses on Immigration Policy

POLI 236. Immigration Policy and Politics
An interdisciplinary seminar covering origins, consequences, and characteristics of worker migration from Third World countries (especially Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean basin) to the United States, from the nineteenth century to the present.

IRGN 432. Immigration and Immigration Policy (4)     This course examines the role of immigration in the globalization of Pacific Rim economies. Topics include the economic forces behind immigration; the impact of immigration on wages, employment, and industry structure in sending and receiving countries; and the nature, scope, and political economy of immigration policy. Prerequisite: IRCO 401 or consent of instructor.

IRGN 490. Special Topics in Pacific International Affairs.
Immigration and Immigration Policy
A seminar course at an advanced level on a special topic in Pacific international affairs. May be repeated for credit.

POLI 150. Politics of Immigration
Comparative analysis of attempts by the United States , Western Europe, and Japan to initiate, regulate and reduce immigration from Third World countries. Social and economic factors shaping outcomes of immigration policies, public opinion toward immigrants, anti-immigration movements, and immigration policy reform options in industrialized countries.

Courses on Latin American International Migration

COHI 175. Topics in Communication: Scientific Communication
This course examines the processes of communication between scientists, the writing of scientific papers, and communicating science to both government agencies (for example environmental bodies) and the wider public (through popularizing books, school textbooks and so forth). Students will be encouraged to follow a particular scientific controversy over the course of the term. Prerequisites: COHI 100 or consent of instructor

ETHN 189. Special Topics in Ethnic Studies.
May Include: Filipino & Mexican American community, Chicana/Latina identities and work and family in immigrant communities. A reading and discussion course that explores special topics in ethnic studies. Themes will vary from quarter to quarter; therefore, course may be repeated for credit.

HIUS 180. Immigration and Ethnicity in Modern American Society
(Same as ETHN 134) Comparative study of immigration and ethnic-group formation in the United States from 1880 to the present. Topics include immigrant adaptation, competing theories about the experiences of different ethnic groups, and the persistence of ethnic attachments in modern American society.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.

HIUS 186. History of Los Angeles
This course will be a thematic examination of special topics in the history of Los Angeles . Special attention will be paid to weaving together issues of ethnicity, gender, politics, and the environment. Graduate students are expected to submit a more substantial piece of work. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.

POLI 248. Special Topics in International Relations
(Same as IRGN 290) This seminar is an examination of the different approaches to the study of international relations. Issues and research areas will vary each time the course is offered. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. This advanced seminar will focus on attempts to use economic theory in comparative and American politics. The micro foundations of macro models will be stressed.

LTSP 177. Literary and Historical Migrations
This course will focus on a variety of Latin American and/or Spanish intra- and inter-national migrations throughout the world and on the literature produced by these exiles or immigrants. Repeatable for credit as topics, texts, and historical periods vary.

POLI 181A. Field Research Methods for Migration Studies: Seminar (4)     Introductory survey of methods used by social scientists to gather primary research data on international migrant and refugee populations, including sample surveys, unstructured interviewing, ethnographic observation, and archival research. Basic fieldwork practices and problem-solving techniques will also be covered. Students planning to take the continuation of this course, Political Science 181B, should note that conversational fluency Spanish is a requirement for Political Science 181B. Prerequisites: upper-division status, permission of instructor.

POLI 181B. Field Research Methods for Migration Studies: Practicum (12)     Continuation of Political Science 181A. Students will apply one or more data collection methods learned in Political Science 181A to collect data from a sample of international migrants, refugees, or returned migrants in a high-migration community. Students participate in team field research, write a detailed individual report on the fieldwork experience and submit a detailed outline of a research paper to be based on data from the fieldwork, required of students who take the continuation of this course, Political Science 181C. Prior to fieldwork, students will read intensively about the research site and write a literature review essay. Prerequisites: upper-division status, Political Science 181A, conversational fluency in Spanish, permission of instructor.

POLI 181C. Field Research Methods for Migration Studies: Data Analysis (4)    
Continuation of Political Science 181B. Students will analyze primary data that they have helped to collect in a field research site and write a major paper based on these data for publication as a section of a co-authored report on the field research project. Methods for organizing and processing field research data for analysis, techniques of quantitative data analysis, and report preparation conventions will be covered. Prerequisites: upper-division status, Political Science 181B, permission of instructor.