Expected Learning Outcomes

• Describe migration as a patterned process for migrants and refugees
• Explain how migration is embedded in a transnational field
• Familiarity with key approaches to migration current in social sciences (at macrostructural, intermediate institutional, and individual subject levels)
• Explain why people migrate, and why they go to specific destinations
• Explain impact of migration on home and host communities (contributions and problems)
• Intelligently interpret and intervene in contemporary im/migration debates
• Be able to “unpack” the meaning behind the phrase, “in search of a better life”