Advanced study in sociology, with specific topics to be announced at the beginning of each semester.

Social Movements and Immigration Until recently, social movement scholars have paid little attention to collective action on the part of immigrants, especially non-citizen immigrants, either in their empirical research or in their theorizing about protest movements. The upsurge in pro-immigrant activism over the past 20 years calls this neglect into question and raises questions about whether we need to alter how we understand, research, and theorize social movements. The first couple weeks of the seminar will provide an overview of the conceptual toolkit social movement scholars have developed to explain the emergence and fate of iconic movements such as the civil rights, women’s, and LBGTQ movements. We will then turn to readings about the recent upsurge in pro-immigrant mobilization, asking if and how we need to rethink our research strategies and theories if we are to understand pro-immigrant collective action. Each student will write a research paper on some specific episode or aspect of collective action around immigration, based either on original data (interviews, documents, etc.) or an assessment of the relevant scholarship.

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