This course, Transnational Migration and Diasporic Communities, was offered at Hamline University during the Fall 1999 semester as a senior seminar for International Studies majors and an upper-level elective for Anthropology majors and other interested students.

The seminar explored the global flow of people across national boundaries in the late twentieth century and the ways in which these dispersed peoples have built and maintained social networks and collective consciousness across national borders. As such, it looked at the reasons that have impelled people to move about the globe, the ways that transnational social identities are being constructed among globally dispersed peoples, and the challenges that new transnational/diasporic social formations pose to the hegemony of the nation-state as the primary source of social identities and political loyalties.