SOCY-455 Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity (3)

Through three analytical units, this course interrogates the structural forces that bind immigration, race, and ethnicity together in ways that construct belonging and exclusion and create and reinforce systems of power, privilege, and inequality. The first unit synthesizes core theoretical frameworks and concepts used to understand immigrant integration, including assimilation, racialization and racial formation, whiteness, citizenship, and nativism. The second unit centers structural explanations of immigrant integration, examining how immigration policy and other social institutions intersect with race, ethnicity, and other categories of difference to privilege some immigrant groups while disadvantaging others. The third unit counters dominant understandings of immigrant integration as a process with immigrants as passive recipients, exploring the profound ways in which immigration continues to reconfigure social constructions of race and ethnicity and social institutions in the United States. AU Core Integrative Requirement: Diversity and Equity.