Fall 2026
DTS1000HF - Comparative Research Methods in Diaspora and Transnationalism
Thursday, 11:00 - 1:00pm
P. Scanlan
This seminar will introduce students to a range of theories to do with diaspora and transnationalism from the humanities and the social sciences. Core questions will include the methodological differences between diaspora and its many synonyms, such as migrant communities, exile, refugee, etc. The different emphases and overlaps between Migration Studies, Urban Studies, and Diaspora and Transnational Studies will also be pursued.
Winter 2027
DTS2002HS - Graduate Topics in Diaspora Studies: Borders
Thrusdays, 3:00 - 5:00pm
A. González Jiménez
This interdisciplinary course focuses on contemporary border regimes—material and discursive infrastructures governing, regulating, and interdicting people’s movement across the globe— as a key feature of the 21st century. It explores the ways border regimes exemplify a plethora of histories, experiences, and inequalities while also being endowed with symbolic and affective power. Ethnographically, the course examines processes of border-making and boundary-making, (de)territorialization, (im)mobilities, transit, and porosity in our contemporary world to understand the ways race, class, gender, sexuality, and colonial legacies intersect in shaping how people live (and die) along borders. The course also discusses ongoing attempts to re-imagine solidarities as well as arguments for the opening of borders in a world on fire and in an era when mass movement is criminalized.
If you are a graduate student outside the DTS program and would like to take one of these courses, please fill out the form below and send it to cdts@utoronto.ca.
