Outline

Part I: Origins, States, & Borders + Citizenship

1. origins & rise of nation state

2. citizenship

Part II: US Historical Immigration (1810 - 1924)

3. General Overview of US Immigration

4. Chinese

5. Mexican

6. Irish

7. German

8. Italians

9. Eastern European Jews

10. 1924 Immigration Act

11. Great Migration

Part III: Closed Door Period (1924 - 1965)

12. Bracero Program

13. PR -- 1898 Spanish-American War, 1947 Operation Bootstrap

Part IV: Post-1965 Immigration (1965 - present)

14. Theorizing Immigration

15. 1952, 1965 law changes

    • Contextualizing Immigration

    • How many immigrants are coming? Who are the new immigrants? Where are they settling?

16. Dominicans

17. Criminalizing Migration & the Southern Border

Part V: Current Migration Themes

18. Assimilation

19. Education & DACA

20. Economic Impact

21. Politics, Birthright Citizenship, Post-Nationalism (End of the Modern Nation State?)