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Name of Institution: Trinity College

Name of First Year Seminar: Borders and their trespassers: (im)migration, human rights, and imagined communities - First Year Seminar 225; Assistant Prof. Andrea Dyrness and Assistant Prof Anne Gebelein

Abstract of the First Year Seminar:

This course will consider the border politics involved in the making of local and (trans) national communities. Using the U.S./Mexican border and the Trinity/ Hartford border as our two primary loci of inquiry, we will explore the rights and reception of those who cross borders: not only geopolitical, but also linguistic, racial, economic, and cultural ones. Examining immigration policy and admissions policy, law enforcement along the border, media representations of migrants and natives, and the stories of border crossers, we will attempt to understand the forces that expand and constrain membership rights in these intersecting communities. How are borders constructed and contested by groups on both sides of the border? How are rights of belonging and membership transformed by migrants and “trespassers”? Border politics will be considered from an anthropological perspective (Prof. Dyrness) and from a cultural studies perspective (Prof. Gebelein), allowing us to consider a wide variety of scholarly work in fiction and nonfiction, contemporary media, and border studies.

Link to Syllabus or PDF of Syllabus:

http://www.trincoll.edu/Academics/MajorsAndMinors/educational/Documents/FYSM_Borders_DyrnessFall07.pdf