Migration

Unit 1. Migrations in world history, 1500-2000.

What can we learn about ourselves and the world by studying migration in history?

Unit 2. Exploration and conquest, 1400-1600.

How have migrants and those they encountered viewed each other?

Unit 3. Commerce and religion 1500-1700.

What has been the impact of merchants and missionaries on their homes and destinations?

Unit 4. Families on the move, 1550-1750.

How have the various stages of migration influenced gender roles?

Unit 5. Carrying and borrowing culture, 1650-1750.

How have cultural practices moved and changed with migration?

Unit 6. Forced migration, 1700-1850.

How did migration create systems of power and dominance?

Unit 7. Migration and identity, 1750-1850.

What was the role of migration in creating modern notions of race, nation, and ethnicity?

Unit 8. Global economy, regional migrations, 1800-1900.

Was industrialization tied more to long-distance or to short-distance migration?

Unit 9. Empire and migration, 1850-1920.

Was large-scale emigration from Europe linked to new imperial conquests?

Unit 10. Diasporas and culture, 1880-1950.

In what ways do diasporas and national culture create cosmopolitan culture?

Unit 11. Nations and refugees, 1900-1980.

How can nationalism lead to genocide?

Unit 12. Families in cities, 1920-1990.

How does migration change family structure?

Unit 13. Identities in a global age, 1970-2000.

What choices in identity do people now face? Which people adopt a global identity?