Asian Community: Border-Crossing, Diasporic Formation, and Social Transformation

(Same as Asian American Studies M179.) Exploration of critical issues facing broad Asian community, in context of globalization and international migration, through social science lens of migration studies and diaspora studies. Examination of how movements of people, ideas, capital, and goods create new trends and patterns of diasporic formation, integration, and social transformation at individual, group, and societal levels in non-Western contexts. Students engage in intellectually stimulating discussions and debates on immigration and immigrant integration in Asian world; and on anxieties, tensions, conflicts, and accommodation in age of globalization. Students also discuss challenges, possibilities, and opportunities of building cohesive Asian community.

P/NP or letter grading.