PSC 354 - Human Rights and Immigration

Course Units: 1

(Fall; Cidam) We are living in an age of human rights. And yet, human rights abuses, in different guises, rage on all over the world, including the developed countries of the West. This is especially true when it comes to migrants who are particularly vulnerable to human rights abuses. The issue becomes even more significant when we take into account the fact that around 200 million people are estimated to be living outside their country of birth. What renders non-citizens so vulnerable to various forms of violence, discrimination, and abuse? To what extent can these problems be addressed and remedied by appeals to human rights? In what ways does the contemporary condition of non-citizens reveal the limits, paradoxes, and promises of human rights? In this upper level political science course, we will address these challenging, intriguing, and the somewhat disconcerting questions through an interdisciplinary inquiry. Prerequisite(s): PSC 111 or PSC 112 or PSC 113 and Sophomore Standing CC: SOCS