Migration is one of the most widespread of human experiences yet generates tremendous conflicts and contradictions in constructions of identities, communities, and inequalities of power and legal statuses. Perhaps t he chief systems of differentiation troubled by migration are those of racial categorizations and nation-state formations. Students will develop a vocabulary and conceptual understanding for migration studies and its interventions into nation-based conceptual frameworks through transnational, diasporic, critical race, and ethnic studies projects.