Citizenship and Immigration
GOVT 345
Fall 2016
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01
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This course examines the concept of citizenship and explores its connection to immigration, ideas of membership, political rights, and processes of incorporation as well as integration. Some of the core questions we will pursue include: What responsibilities do liberal democracies have to immigrants? How should we conceive of citizenship? Should we think of citizenship as a formal political and legal status? As an entitlement to a set of rights? As active participation in self-governance? As an identity? Or, something else entirely? How have racial, ethnic, gender, and class identities and hierarchies shaped the access people have to rights and formal membership? Finally, we will evaluate how political thinkers have argued for the inclusion and exclusion of immigrants into the political community. Most of our readings for the term will be drawn from legal theorists and political philosophers; we will also read some work by historians, political scientists, and sociologists for historical context and background. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS GOVT |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (EDST)(GOVT)(GOVT-Theory) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
The following titles will be used throughout the term:
Joseph Carens, THE ETHICS OF IMMIGRATION (Oxford University Press, 2013). ISBN: 9780190246792
Michael Walzer, SPHERES OF JUSTICE: A DEFENSE OF PLURALISM AND EQUALITY (Basic Books, 1983). ISBN: 9780465081899
Seyla Benhabib, THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS: ALIENS, RESIDENTS, AND CITIZENS (Cambridge University Press, 2004). ISBN: 9780521538602
K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, COLOR CONSCIOUS: THE POLITICAL MORALITY OF RACE (Princeton University Press, 1996). ISBN: 9780691059099
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Examinations and Assignments:
Tentatively, assignments will include two 3-5 pp response papers, a short topic proposal for a term paper, and a final term paper. |
| Instructor(s): Williams,Liza Barclay Times: ..T.R.. 01:20PM-02:40PM; Location: ALLB103; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 25 | | SR major: 9 | JR major: 9 | | |
| Seats Available: 2 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 2 | FR: X |
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