Fall 2022 Barnard History Seminar

Inviting Applications for Barnard History Seminar, Fall 2022
Seeking Asylum: History, Politics, and the Search for Justice at the U.S.-Mexico Border

This seminar explores the roots of and responses to the contemporary refugee “crisis” at the U.S.-Mexico border. We examine the historical factors that are propelling people, including families and unaccompanied minors, to leave Central America; the history and politics of the system of legal asylum that those seeking refuge must negotiate in the U.S.; and how ideas about family, gender, and childhood shape the politics of migration. The course is organized around a collaboration with a migrant rights organization involving an oral history project. The seminar is open to undergraduate students across the University regardless of college, year, or major. In order to be considered for the course, students should fill out this application (link also pasted below). The deadline to apply is June 15. (Admission is based on the application; you do not need to register in SSOL until the fall.)
Questions?: nmilanich@barnard.edu
Seminar application: https://forms.gle/YBSB9SNi1pt2mZ2u