SOC 280 - Bound By Borders: A Sociology of Law and Migration

4 credits (Fall or Spring)

Laws bind people to each other and to their territory, and this has far-reaching consequences for people’s life chances and identities. Migrants test these ties and have been the motivation for the emergence and reconfiguration of important laws governing who can come and go. How and why this happens interests not only policymakers, government officials, and judges, but also individuals included or excluded by borders and scholars trying to understand laws. This course takes a sociological view of global migration to explain the origins of law and its effects.

Prerequisite: SOC 111.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Cook-Martín