Sociology 285B – Special Topics in Sociology: Migration Industry: Facilitation, Control, and Rescue
Quarter: Spring 2019Instructor: R. Hernandez-Leon
Seminar, three hours. Designed for graduate students. Seminars on selected current topics of sociological interest. Consult Schedule of Classes for topics and instructors. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading. Examination of different conceptualizations and empirical manifestations of migration industry: complex of actors, service, and infrastructures which--motivated largely by profit--foster, facilitate, and sustain international migration. Students learn about articulations between migration industry and state, migrants, employers, nongovernmental organizations, and other actors of sociopolitical process of international migration. Analysis of migration industry role in different kinds of cross-border flows: legal and irregular migrations, refugee and labor flows, lower-skill and highly-skilled streams. Students also read about different variants of migration industry, including industry of migration control and rescue industry, and empirical manifestations of migration industry in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Americas.
