Columbia in Paris

Please note that class will not take place on Monday, June 23 due to Orientation. This session will be rescheduled during the program. Faculty will provide specific information on make-up sessions.

Class Schedule

• Monday, Wednesday & Thursday, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Please note that the scheduling of this class conflicts with France and the African Diaspora.

This course examines the social, political, and cultural history of migration in the Mediterranean, with a particular focus on France and Africa. We examine the forces that have underpinned migration in the nations of the Mediterranean rim since the 1950s and observe major transitions in policy and legal frameworks. Though migration is often treated in mainstream media as an object of policy and legislation, it is better approached as a 'total social fact' involving political, social, economic and cultural dimensions. With this in mind, we look at different media, genres and narrative forms in which migration has been represented and debated and grapple with questions about the relationship between lived experience and representation and between politics and the arts.

This course is approved for Global Core at Columbia.