SOCIOL 242Governing Migration
Sociology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Overview of how the state—through its bureaucracies, classification systems, and enforcement agencies—includes, excludes, and controls immigrant populations, thereby governing immigrants’ lives. Students gain understanding of state power not as an unknown or homogeneous entity, but as an active actor whose structures reflect the varied and sometimes conflicting goals of its agencies as well as the contextual economic and political forces and interests. Examination of how, through classification systems, state power creates the populations that the state either rewards or punishes; produces enduring inequalities; and spills over into everyday life, various levels of government, and beyond the physical territory of the country.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.