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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Axel Schäfer
Event type:
Advanced seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.532
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: AS 532
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
The United States is a “nation of immigrants” not just because the country became a destination for millions of people, but because immigration is at the core of its national ideology, state-formation, and capitalist economy. This story, however, is not simply about how people from a wide variety of countries and continents were integrated on the basis of republican principles, civic nationalism, and free enterprise. Instead, the study of immigration is central to understanding a society that combines a democratic and egalitarian promise with a socio-political reality of conflict, exclusion, and exploitation. This course combines a historical overview of immigration with a closer look at salient issues in immigration debates and policies. It focuses on the period from the 1880s to the 1940s when immigration debates and policies were central to defining U.S. political ideology, social policy, and cultural identity for the twentieth century.
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