SOCI 461 - Seminar: Reimagining Immigrant/Ethnic Enclaves in an Era of Globalization

FC SSCI CD

4 credits
Some sociologists understand immigrant/ethnic enclaves as temporary platforms for assimilation, based on ethnic solidarity, while others argue that ethnic solidarity is a myth. Such debates have historically dominated sociological understanding of ethnic neighborhoods/enclaves. But more recently many sociologists and urban scholars have highlighted the emergence of new ethnic enclaves, and their global and transnational circuits of culture and capital and direct and indirect ties to motherland. This course is designed to understand and reimagine immigrant/ethnic communities by locating these enclaves in global/transnational/cosmopolitan/multicultural contexts; and to explore how and why diverse ethnic groups have maintained distinctive cultures within their community.