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This course will arm students with the tools necessary to unpack the dual-faced nature of globalized migration as both a domestic and international policy issue, as well as both a driver of economic growth and a target of discontent. To do so, students will encounter a variety of competing narratives, grounded in substantively differing worldviews and understandings of economic and social behavior, and gain an appreciation for the diversity of both labor migration policy itself and the interdisciplinary study of it using approaches grounded in Political Science, Economics, Sociology, Anthropology, and History across a variety of geographic, political, and economic contexts. The course will give particular attention to the distinctive features of labor migration policy in regions such as East Asia, the Middle East, South America, and Africa, while also examining it from race studies, decolonial studies, and gender studies perspectives.