Immigrant States: Jersey’s Global Routes

Course Description

This course investigates immigration to New Jersey through an interdisciplinary framework, and uses methods and sources from history, literature, film, sociology, political science, and ethnic studies to try and make sense of what it means to call New Jersey an “immigrant state.” Together, we will examine the experiences of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Korea, India, the Philippines, Mexico, and China, who came to New Jersey after 1965. We will also examine European sources of immigration to New Jersey, and histories of transatlantic migration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During the semester, we will address intersections, comparisons, and relationships between immigration across national borders, and other migrations, such as the movement Black Americans from the South to New Jersey cities, and the forced migrations of Native Americans and enslaved Africans in the state’s colonial period.

Code

01:050:271

Credits

3

Subject

American Studies

Programs That Include This Course

• Bachelor's Major in American Studies