Prerequisite: None

Exam Type: No Exam

The movement of people across borders alongside questions of membership and belonging are high on the agenda worldwide. Political and legal battles over citizenship and immigration ensue. This course explores major developments in citizenship and migration law and policy from a comparative perspective. We will survey key debates and topics such as admission requirements; the main classifications of immigration (family, employment, and humanitarian categories); pertinent international legal agreements concerning refugees and asylum seekers; responses to climate-induced mobility; highly skilled migration; regional free movement agreements; steps to naturalization; civic integration tests; solidarity and diversity; freedom of religion and religious symbols in the public sphere; dual nationality; and dilemmas of removal or stripping of citizenship. We will place these developments in a broader theoretical, comparative, and international context. Throughout the course, we will consider the implications of these developments for the meaning of citizenship, the rights of migrants, and the future of borders.