UE US civilisation : Migrations

This course will seek to  analyze the key principles, mechanisms and paradoxes guiding this prominent  aspect of American identity and history. Although focusing on the latter part of the 20th  century and current times, it will also draw from earlier times to highlight  deeply entrenched reactions and policies. Who migrates to America and why? What are the paradoxes of U.S. migration policies? What does ‘assimilation’ imply in  a so-called multicultural society? What are the current challenges? These are some of the questions this course will seek to address.

:  All these books are available at the BU Fenouillères. More specific articles and studies will be posted online on the Ametice page of the course.

 Marisa Abrajano  & Zoltan L. Hajnal, White Backlash : Immigration, race and American Politics. Princeton : Princeton UP, 2015.

James Cohen, À la poursuite des illégaux : Politique et mouvements anti-immigrés aux États-Unis. Editions du Croquant, 2012

Donna Gabaccia, Immigration and American Diversity. A Social and Cultural History. Blackwell Publishers, 2002.

Timothy J. Henderson, Beyond Borders : A History of Mexican Migration to the United States, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

David Hollinger, Postethnic America. Beyond Multiculturalism. NY : Basic Books, 2000.

Samuel P. Huntington, Who are We ? America’s Great Debate. The Free Press, 2004.

Hiroshi Motomura, Americans in Waiting : The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States. Oxford UP, 2007

Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore. A History of Asian Americans. Time Warner Trade Publishing, 1998

Reed Ueda, A Companion to American Immigration. Blackwell, 2011

Philip Yang, Asian Immigration to the United States. Cambridge : Polity Press, 2011

Aristide R. Zolberg, A Nation by Design : Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2006.