Undocumented: Migrants, Refugees, and Rights in Latin American Literature and Culture

How can we grasp and conceptualize the experience of being displaced from home, stranded in a refugee camp, or living undocumented in a foreign country? This interdisciplinary course explores these questions by engaging with literature, cultural and political theory, international law, film, and art on forced displacement by twentieth-century and contemporary Latin American authors and artists. The goal is to provide students with a critical vocabulary and historical perspective to analyze the cultural, ethical, and political dimensions of today's global migratory and refugee crises.