Global Humanities

The course "Africa and its diasporas" aims to study African/Asian/Middle Eastern forms of mobility, Africa/Europe, as part of past and contemporary transnational migratory processes. It will present students with case studies of mobility, past and present, and of forms of circular and outreach migrations. It will analyse diasporic processes of individual, families and groups as rationally-motivated strategies to face hardships and politically and culturally hostile environments. The students will be asked to understand transnational mobility through relevant area literatures, films and self-narratives. The aim is to help students make their own assessments of migration and diasporic movements, through an in- depth immersion in this multidisciplinary field of study.