Anthropology of Borders

This course will study borders, literal and imagined, and those who contest and enforce them. We will review anthropological approaches to bordering logics, focusing on how bordering and its violences creeps into everyday life far from nation-state boundaries and exploring insurgent mobilities. Drawing heavily from bordering processes in the Americas while also exploring parallels around the globe, this course asks: who do borders serve? How are they maintained? What does transgressing borders mean for those in power and for those who do the crossing?