Course Description

Instructor: Shai Robkin

Immigration is a fraught and misunderstood topic in America’s social discourse, with much of what we believe based largely on myth. How different were the experiences of immigrants from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to those of immigrants today? How different are the children of immigrants from countries like El Salvador, Mexico and Guatemala coming to the US today from those who arrived on our shores from Great Britain and Norway 150 years ago? How do immigrants and their children compare educationally, professionally and economically with US born residents? We’ll dig into these questions along with many others and discuss the policy implications of what we find.