Winter 2004
National Borders, Globalization, and the “New” World Threats
National Borders Post 9/11 and Post-Iraq War will examine how national
borders are being re-conceptualized in response to competing pressures
of globalization and perceived threats to national security, cultural
cohesiveness, and social integration. On the one hand, globalization
promotes the ever more rapid movement of people, ideas, capital, and
commercial products across national borders, in many ways making such
borders obsolete and contradictory. On the other hand, political
events, such as the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and the
discourse of threats posed by Muslim fundamentalists, rogue
governments, transnational migrants and refugees, and even disease,
promote a hardening of borders, greater surveillance technologies, and
international suspicion and tension.
Leo Chavez, Professor of Anthropology,
UCI
Frances Hasso,
Assistant Professor, Oberlin College
Jenny Sharpe, Professor of
English, UCLA
Jonathan Inda, Assistant Professor, UCSB - Chicano Studies
Michael Feener, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Parama Roy, Associate Professor, English
Dylan Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies
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Spring 2004
Transnationals, Immigrants, and their Offspring
Transnationals, Immigrants, and their Offspring will examine issues of
social and cultural integration in the U.S. and other immigrant
receiving nations, especially in Europe and Japan. Participants will
examine theories and cases of how newcomers are integrated or face
obstacles to integration into receiving societies. We will investigate
sites of possible integration and disintegration, including the
workplace, education, political life, the law, and social services.
Assimilation will be reconsidered in relation to new theoretical
constructions of the concept.
Leo Chavez, Professor of Anthropology,
UCI
Frances Hasso,
Assistant Professor, Oberlin College
Jenny Sharpe, Professor of
English, UCLA
Devra Weber, Associate Professor, History
Barbara Tinsley, Professor, Psychology
Ralph Crowder, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies
Edward Chang, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies
Paul Gelles, Associate Professor, Anthropology
Paul Green, Assistant Professor, School of Education
Carole-Anne Tyler, Associate Professor, English and Chair, Film
and Visual Culture Program
Karen Pyke, Assistant Professor, Sociology
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