2018-2019 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2018-2019 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HS 491 - Seminar: Migration, Displacement, and Refugees: Middle East

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Explores the history of migrants, refugees, and displaced peoples from, to, and within the modern Middle East, from the nineteenth century to the present. After an introduction to the geography, history, and cultures of the region, and after a session dedicated to definitions and to theoretical and methodological approaches in migration and refugee studies, this course focuses on select topics: nomads as displaced people in the late Ottoman empire; the genocide by forced migration of Ottoman Armenians; forced population transfers at the end of World War I; the dispossession and statelessness of the Kurds; the Syrian and Lebanese diaspora to North, Central, and South America; foreign migrants ("guest workers") and human trafficking in the Arab Gulf; and the plight of Iraqi and Syrian refugees since 2003 and 2011, respectively. Students dedicate the last two weeks of class to a thorough examination of the current Middle East refugee crisis in Europe and in the United States, and welcome guest speakers from the Baltimore refugee community. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. GT/IPJ



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