GEOG 495

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Advanced Topics in Geography

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Explores special topics not covered in regularly scheduled Geography courses.

3 or 4 undergraduate hours. 3 or 4 graduate hours. May be repeated if topics vary in the same term to a maximum of 9 undergraduate hours or 12 graduate hours or in separate terms to a maximum of 12 undergraduate hours or 12 graduate hours.

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GEOG 495 class schedule data for spring 2021
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	72114	Online	NAA	11:00AM -1:50PM	R	n.a.	Alvarado, N	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Migration and the City Section Info: In this course, we will read and discuss a number of classic and cutting edge texts that allow us conceptualize migrants as city-makers. We will critically engage with the manifold migrant urbanisms emerging throughout the world with the objective of understanding the city through the lens of migration and migration through the lens of the city. Most international migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees move to cities searching for better services, education, and livelihood opportunities that urban areas provide. Such movement patterns represent challenges and opportunities for host cities that are not captured in traditional debates on the assimilation/integration of migrants into national projects. More than the nation, the city becomes the main terrain on which migrants’ efforts to improve their lives unfold. In the process, migration generates variegated forms of city-making that design novel textures into the urban fabric. Migrants have become a force behind urbanization, creating and shaping their own spaces, deploying their own politics, and expanding the boundaries of citizenship and democracy. Migration often also intersects with and contributes to multiple forms of informality in fast-growing cities of the global South. Migrant economies spread across urban terrains, connecting local transactions to transnational circuits of capital, and reflecting what Verónica Gago refers to as the baroque economies and popular pragmatics that fuel neoliberalism from below. At the same time, racialized migration regimes shape governance, urban policy, and modes of intervention towards migration. Racism and xenophobia, along with a lack of citizenship rights, determine the limits and possibilities of migrant participation in cities. Most literature on migration has failed to address the importance of the urban scale for migrants, while urban theory has been uninterested in the migrant urbanism that is part of the ongoing transformation of urban spaces across the globe. In this course you will be an active agent in shaping your knowledge on migrants and urban areas and you will leave with a deeper understanding of the migration-city nexus.