Human Rights and Migration Minor
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Human Rights and Migration Minor
The purpose of the human rights and migration minor is to encourage students to treat human rights and migration as both intellectual and practical questions. Students address critical questions: What sorts of rights do citizens, migrants, and refugees deserve? Where do rights come from—from political communities like the nation-state or from universal understandings of humanity? Who counts as a human deserving of rights? How are human rights different from citizenship rights? Students will engage openly with the history and the implementation of human rights, explore its origins and trajectory, the discourses and institutions that make up the international human rights framework today, and the range of its influences and effects. In many cases, migrants and refugees face complex political and legal barriers to the exercise of their rights. Students will learn about the economic, cultural, demographic, and political impacts of immigration; laws and government policies for addressing immigration and refugee flows; ethnic, gender, citizenship, and transnational dimensions of immigration; the integration of immigrant minorities in receiving societies; and immigrant history and literature. Many of the courses in the minor have a clear international context, and a good portion have a US or comparative approach.
This program helps to prepare students for a career in research and teaching, public policy, working in NGOs that advocate for and monitor human rights compliance, immigrant service-providing organizations, government agencies, or law. The unique research and writing opportunities offered by this minor also make it an excellent preparation for graduate school.
To receive a minor in human rights and migration, a student must complete twenty-eight units, including two required courses (see below) and twenty additional units. The additional twenty units may be satisfied either by a) five additional four-unit classes from the list of approved electives, or b) internships through AIP or field research in the Mexican Migration Field Research Program (MMFRP). Additional courses may be approved by special petition to the program directors.
Since the human rights and migration minor is an interdisciplinary program, students are allowed to take no more than three courses in any one department. All courses (except internships) must be taken for letter grade.
Required Courses:
One of the following human rights focused courses:
HMNR 100: SOCI 174/HITO 119. Human Rights I: Introduction to Human Rights and Global Justice
OR
HMNR 101: COMM 114A. Human Rights, Communication, and Contemporary Global Justice
AND
One of the following migration-focused courses:
POLI 140D. International Human Rights Law: Migrant Populations
POLI 150A. The Politics of Immigration
SOCI 125. Sociology of Immigration
USP 162. Migration and the City
Track A: Additional Course Work
(Choose any five four-unit courses from the following list, or petition for other courses to be accepted)
ANTH 21. Race and Racisms
ANTH 23. Debating Multiculturalism: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in American Societies
ANSC 131. Language, Law, and Social Justice
ANSC 140. Human Rights: Contemporary Issues
ANSC 144. Immigrant and Refugee Health
ANSC 151. US-Mexico Border Ethnographies
ANSC 153. War in Lived Experience
ANSC 155. Humanitarian Aid: What Is It Good For?
ANSC 158. Comparative Anthropology of Crisis
ANSC 176. The Meaning of Political Violence
ANSC 185. #BlackLivesMatter
ANSC 186. Gender and Incarceration
ANSC 196. The Human Rights Advocacy Seminar
CGS 106. Gender Equality and the Law
COMM 108D. POB: Disability
COMM 111B. Global Borders Communication and Conflict
COMM 114A. Human Rights, Communication, and Contemporary Global Justice
COMM 114B. Human Rights Advocacy Seminar: Journalists, Activists, and Scholars at Risk
COMM 114F. Law, Communication, and Freedom of Expression
COMM 131. Communication, Dissent, and the Formation of Social Movements
COMM 158. Representations of the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
COMM 163. Concepts of Freedom
COMM 166. Surveillance, Media, and the Risk Society
COMM 183. Global Economy and Consumer Culture
ETHN 103. Environmental Racism
ETHN 109. Race and Social Movements
ETHN 152. Law and Civil Rights
HITO 119. Introduction to Human Rights and Global Justice
HITO 134. International Law—War Crimes and Genocide
HIUS 136. Citizenship and Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century
LATI 10. Reading North by South: Latin America Studies and the US Liberation Movements
LAWS 101. Contemporary Legal Issues
LTCS 125. Cultural Perspectives on Immigration and Citizenship
PHIL 167. Contemporary Political Philosophy
PHIL 168. Philosophy of Law
POLI 104I. Law and Politics—Courts and Political Controversy
POLI 104M. Law and Sex
POLI 104B. Civil Liberties—Fundamental Rights
POLI 104C. Civil Liberties—The Rights of Criminals and Minorities
POLI 108. Politics of Multiculturalism
POLI 111B. Global Justice/Theory and Action
POLI 122. Politics of Human Rights
POLI 122D. Abuse of Power
POLI 131. Muslim Integration and Exclusion
POLI 135. Comparative LGBT Politics
POLI 140A. International Law and Organizations
POLI 140D. International Human Rights Law: Migrant Populations
SOCI 127. Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity
SOCI 163. Migration and the Law
SOCI 140F. Law and the Workplace
SOCI 174. Introduction to Human Rights and Global Justice
SOCI 175. Nationality and Citizenship
SOCI 177. International Terrorism
USP 162. Migration and the City
USP 163. Community-Based Research and Planning
USP 188. Field Research in Migrant Communities—Practicum
USP 188B. Research Analysis and Reporting
Track B: Internships or Field Research
After completing Requirements 1 and 2 (see “Required Courses” for the minor above), students may choose to complete their minor by doing independent research or internships. Students choosing this track will receive intensive training through academic internships in a local immigrant/refugee service-providing organization or conduct independent research in the area. Students are required to take one upper-division research methods course from the following:
- ANSC 138. The Cultural Design Practicum: Using Anthropology to Solve Human Problems
- ANSC 173. Ethnography in Practice
- COMM 101A. Media Activism
- COMM 101E. MPL: Ethnographic Methods for Media Production
- COMM 102C. MMPP: Practicum in New Media and Community Life
- COMM 114B. Human Rights Advocacy Seminar: Journalists, Activists, and Scholars at Risk
- COMM 114K. CSI: Community Fieldwork (can be repeated)
- ETHN 190. Research Methods: Studying Racial and Ethnic Communities (cross-listed as USP 129)
- POLI 160AA and AB. Introduction to Policy Analysis
- POLI 168. Policy Assessment
- POLI 170A. Applied Data Analysis for Political Science
- POLI 171. Making Policy with Data
- SOCI 104. Field Research: Methods of Participant Observation (prerequisite: SOCI 60, SOCI majors only)
- SOCI 108. Survey Research Design (prerequisite: SOCI 60)
- SOCI 109M. Research Reporting
- SOCI 110. Qualitative Research in Educational Settings
- SOCI 188. Fieldwork in Migrant Communities
- USP 163. Community-Based Research and Planning
- USP 188. Field Research in Migrant Communities—Practicum
Complete the remaining sixteen units for this track through a combination of:
- Courses from the list under Track A and:
- 199: Independent Studies courses (four units each) in order to pursue a field research project with a faculty member (this includes the Mexican Migration Field Research Program, or MMFRP) Note: Students choosing to satisfy their units requirements in Track B through field research focused on migration, like the MMFRP program must complete one course from HMNR 100 and one course from HMNR 101.
OR
- Completing an internship in a non-governmental organization/agency that services immigrants or refugees in the San Diego area. Internships up to eight units MUST be arranged by the Academic Internship Program (AIP) and approved by the minor faculty adviser. Note: Students choosing this option must be eligible for and follow AIP deadlines and guidelines. AIP courses and 199 courses may be taken for P/NP for this minor.