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HIUS 2201

US Immigration Law and Policy in Historical Perspective

Course Description

Disciplines

Social & Economic Systems , Historical Perspectives

This course will trace the origins of today's immigration policy debates by providing students with a comprehensive overview of American immigration law and policy from the eighteenth century to the present. The course will also explore how state and federal policies impacted a wide array of immigrants, including the Irish, Chinese, and Mexican arrivals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.