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| Campus | Bryn Mawr |
| Semester | Fall 2022 |
| Registration ID | SOCLB232001 |
| Course Title | Migrant Communities in Philly |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies |
| Instructor | Montes,Veronica |
| Times and Days | M 12:10pm-03:00pm
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| Room Location | TAYC |
| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1737 This course will use the lenses of sociology to critically and comparatively examine various immigrant communities living in greater Philadelphia. It will expose students to the complex historical, economic, political, and social factors influencing (im)migration, as well as how migrants and the children of immigrants develop their sense of belonging and their homemaking practices in the new host society. In this course, we will probe questions of belonging, identity, homemaking, citizenship, transnationalism, and ethnic entrepreneurship and how individuals, families, and communities are transformed locally and across borders through the process of migration. This course also seeks to interrogate how once in a new country, immigrant communities not only develop a sense of belonging but also how they reconfigure their own identities while they transform the social, physical, and cultural milieus of their new communities of arrival. To achieve these ends, this course will engage in a multidisciplinary approach consisting of materials drawn from such disciplines as cultural studies, anthropology, history, migration studies, and sociology to examine distinct immigrant communities that have arrived in Philadelphia over the past 100 years. Although this course will also cover the histories of migrant communities arriving in the area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a greater part of the course will focus on recent migrant communities, mainly from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean and arriving in the area of South Philadelphia. A special focus will be on the Mexican American migrant community that stands out among those newly arrived migrant communities.; This course will use the lenses of sociology to critically and comparatively examine various immigrant communities that historically, economically, politically, and socially have shaped the city of Philadelphia. Specifically, this course seeks to interrogate, what push factors make immigrants to leave their homelands, what pull factors make Philadelphia becoming the chosen new residence for these immigrants, how these factors have changed across time and along race/ethnicity/gender lines of the different migrant communities that have settled in Philadelphia. To achieve these ends, this course sheds light on how immigrant communities have shaped the city at different points in time and how the Philadelphia metropolitan region has shaped immigrants’ lives. Finally, the course also familiarizes students with Philadelphia’s history and with its socioeconomic and political transformations, and how old and new Philadelphians have faced those changes. This course will be taught in Philadelphia as part of the Tri-Co Philly Program. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Current description: A Sociological Journey to Immigrant Communities in Philadelphia. Priority in registration will be given to students participating in the Philly Program. Remaining seats are available to other Tri-Co students, by lottery, if demand exceeds remaining spaces in the course. If you are interested in applying to the Tri-Co Philly Program, you must fill out the application, which is due on Friday, March 25 at 11:59 pm. The program includes registering for the program’s core course, A Sociological Journey to Immigrant Communities in Philadelphia (SOCL B232), and either Grassroots Economies: Creating Livelihoods in an Age of Urban Inequality (POLS H262) OR Monuments and Public Space: Studio Architecture (ARTT 006B). For additional information and the program application see the program's website https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside/academic-information/special-academic-programs/philly-program. Those not participating in the Tri-Co Philly Program do not need to complete the application and can simply pre-register for the class. |
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