CRS43500

As increasing droughts, floods, superstorms, rising sea levels, and other environmental damage caused by global economic and military forces drive more and more communities across international borders, a new global arms race has taken shape in the form of heavily militarized border enforcement technologies, policies, and industries. This class will analytically connect the dots between climate change, displacement and migration, and borders and homeland security. In doing so, we will also look into the potential for alternatives, resistance, activism, and movements that could change the future of migration and climate adaptation in small and/or big ways. In this class, the students will be treated like journalists investigating the most pressing dynamics of our time.