Offering: Intersession 2025

How can popular films or viral videos spark critical conversations about migration, politics, and borders? In this course, students will explore the powerful role of digital media and how it (re)shapes our understandings of what it means to be a migrant or a refugee. 

Through analyzing TikTok case studies, having Netflix-inspired discussions, and engaging with a guest speaker series, students will gain a unique perspective on migration by considering how digital platforms serve as spaces for storytelling, community-building, resistance, and activism. This course will also push students to consider how migration is unfolding in real-time on digital platforms.?  

Students will be asked to reflect on whether these forums offer opportunities to critically engage with migration politics from new angles and whether they amplify marginalized voices. By the end of the course, students will have a deeper understanding of how these digital diaries are actively reshaping the global conversation on migration, borders, and social justice.? 

Be prepared to watch, scroll, and critically analyze the ways migration and social justice are represented and contested across digital spaces!? 

Pre requisites: None