<p>Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Overview of the main issues related to contemporary patterns of immigrant integration in the U.S., covering a variety of immigrant groups and their experiences. Topics include immigration law and admission categories, immigrant communities, labor force participation, family and generational relations, children of immigrants, and immigrants’ relations with non-immigrants as they interact in U.S. society. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

Sociology

College of Letters and Science

SOCIOL 152 - Comparative Immigrant Integration in the U.S. 

Comparative Immigrant Integration in the U.S. 

Students will be able to understand the social, cultural, and human variation that shapes immigrant integration and how immigration has contributed to shape U.S. society,

Identify social and structural patterns that contribute to divergent paths of integration.

Explain how U.S. society continues to be shaped by immigration as well as by responses to it. These goals will be accomplished through engagement with cutting-edge scholarship and readings, active discussions, and a hands-on research project. 

General Catalog

Comparative Immigrant Integration in the U.S.

SOCIOL 152

4 units