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Apr 18, 2024
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Goucher College 2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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WS 237 - Gender and Migration in a Global Perspective: I Detect an ‘Accent’ Where are You Originally From? (3 Cr.) (LER DIV)
Dominating recent policy discussion both in North America and Europe, migration has proven to be one of the most difficult and controversial topics of our time. This interdisciplinary course seeks to uncover recurrent and recognizable patterns and to create a dialogue that takes into account issues of gender, geography, race, and sexuality. Exploring the fundamental connections between gender and immigration it looks at how women and their bodies dramatize “the achievements” and/or “failures” of the nation and how these “successes” or “failures” figure differently in transnational contexts. It looks at how archaic hetero-normative images of family, the language of victim-hood, the erotics of immigration, and anxiety permeate national discourses of migration and how immigration laws are explicitly gendered but framed as gender neutral. Finally it considers how economic factors, geography, empire-building, political imperatives, racism, sexism, and the exploitation of national principles of security affect the contemporary lived experience of migration. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, and WS 150 or a 100-level PCE studies course or permission from the instructor. Fall semester. Offered 2014-15 and alternate years. François.
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