Tri-Co Philly: A Sociological Journey to Immigrant Communities in Philadelphia
This course will use the lenses of sociology to critically and comparatively examine various immigrant communities that historically, economically, politically, and socially have shaped the city of Philadelphia.
This course will use the lenses of sociology to critically and comparatively examine various immigrant communities that historically, economically, politically, and socially have shaped the city of Philadelphia.
SOCL B232 | Monday 12:10-3 p.m., Friday 12:15-3 p.m.
Veronica Montes, Bryn Mawr College
This course will use the lenses of sociology to critically and comparatively examine various immigrant communities that historically, economically, politically, and socially have shaped the city of Philadelphia. Specifically, this course seeks to interrogate, what push factors make immigrants to leave their homelands, what pull factors make Philadelphia becoming the chosen new residence for these immigrants, how these factors have changed across time and along race/ethnicity/gender lines of the different migrant communities that have settled in Philadelphia. To achieve these ends, this course sheds light on how immigrant communities have shaped the city at different points in time and how the Philadelphia metropolitan region has shaped immigrants’ lives. Finally, the course also familiarizes students with Philadelphia’s history and with its socioeconomic and political transformations, and how old and new Philadelphians have faced those changes. This course will be taught in Philadelphia as part of the Tri-Co Philly Program.