HST-218 Service Learning- Walls and Bridges: Immigration in Global Perspective
In this course students meet community needs by engaging in service-learning outside the classroom.Immigration is one of the crucial topics of the 21st century. This course provides historical context for migration flows in Spain in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The syllabus follows a chronological overview of immigration history in Spain. Traditionally a country of emigrants, Spain became the EU country receiving the largest numbers of immigrants in 2018. Topics to be covered in class include Spains unprecedented modernization in 40 years of democracy; immigration, Islamophobia and xenophobia; immigration and citizenship; family, gender and sexuality; refugees and asylum policy; globalization and migration; illegal immigrant rights; border walls, policing and illegal trafficking; deportation; integration and assimilation; the 2015 refugee crisis and its impact; emigration in Spain during the Great Recession; and the future of immigration in Spain. Immigration to Spain : Past, Present and Future includes an array primary and secondary sources together with documentary material relevant to these topics.