AP/ANTH 4270 3.00 Imagined Societies: An Anthropology of Nations Without Boundaries
This course explores questions of identity and belonging in a global framework. We will examine histories of migration and subsequent configurations of cultures, identities and politics. We will explore migration to the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom
and will examine how both the country of arrival, as well as the country of departure shape migration. We will consider how immigrant communities negotiate citizenship, identity and belonging, while maintaining real and imagined social, political, and economic ties to an
imagined homeland. As we will see, cultural productions of diasporic communities collapse binaries of “home” and “abroad” prompting new ways of thinking about globalization and diaspora.
Course Director (Winter 2025): L. Ameeriar - lalaie@yorku.ca