CLASS ONE/ Introduction
No readings this week.

CLASS TWO/ Manufacturing illegality
Required readings
Pollock, J. (2010). The migrant worker, the refugee, and the trafficked person: What’s in a
label? Alliance News, 33(July), 19-22.
Price, M. & Rojas, G. (2021). The ordinary lives and uneven precarity of the DACAmented:
visualising migrant precarity in metropolitan Washington. Journal of Ethnic and Migration
Studies, 47(20), 4758-4778.

CLASS THREE/ Smugglers and Smuggling
Required readings
Scot Watson . 2015.The Criminalization of Human and Humanitarian Smuggling, Archives,
1(1)

CLASS FOUR/: Globalized labor
Required readings
Mathews, G. & Yang, Y. (2012). How Africans pursue low-end globalization in Hong Kong
and Mainland China. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 41(2), 95-120.
Gorden Mathew: Chung King Mansion: A Center of Low End Globalization , Ethnology 46,
2 : 168-183.

CLASS FIVE/ : Globalized Labor
Required readings :
One of the following:
Marina De Regt , 2010. Ways to Comes, Ways to Leave: Gender, Mobility, and Il/Legality
Among Ethiopian Domestic Worers in Yemen . Gender and Society 24, 2
https://doi.org/10.1177/089124320936035.
Carnay, N.U. (2017). Pictures From the Inside: Investigating Living Accommodation of
Women
Migrant Domestic Workers Towards Advocacy and Action. Hong Kong: Mission for Migrant
Workers. Available online at: https://www.migrants.net/researches
Pande, A. (2012). From “balcony talk” and “practical prayers” to illegal collectives:
Migrant domestic workers and meso-level resistances in Lebanon. Gender & Society, 26(3),
382-405.

CLASS SIX/ Refugees and asylum-seekers
Required readings Both of the following:
Showler, P. (2007). Bridging the Grand Canyon: Deciding refugee claims. Queen’s
Quarterly: A Canadian Review, 114(1), 29-43.
Vecchio, F. (2015). Chapter 4: Establishing life at the destination. In Asylum-seeking and the
global city. Oxon: Routledge.

CLASS SEVEN/ : Criminology of mobility
Required reading
Stumpf, J. (2006). The crimmigration crisis: Immigrants, crime and sovereign power.
American University Law Review, 56(2), 367-419. bepress Legal Series Working Paper 1635,
bepress Legal Repository. STUDENTS ARE ONLY REQUIRED TO READ THE SECTION
‘IMMIGRATION AND CRIMINAL LAW CONVERGE’ ON PAGES 379-395.

CLASS EIGHT/ : ‘Death at the global frontier’
Required readings
One of the following:
De Leon, J. (2015). Chapter 7: The Crossing (pp.167-202) In The Land of Open Graves:
Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail. Oakland: University of California Press.
Weber, L. & Pickering, S. (2011). Chapter 5: Suspicious deaths (pp. 119-141). In
Globalization and borders: Deaths at the global frontier. Oxon: Routledge.

CLASS NINE/: Sex work, gender, sexuality and border crossings
Required readings
One of the following:
Hoang, K. K. (2014). Flirting with capital: Negotiating perceptions of pan-Asian ascendency
and Western decline in global sex work. Social Problems, 61(4), 507-529.
Pickering, S., & Ham, J. (2014). Hot pants at the border: Sorting sex work from trafficking.
British Journal of Criminology, 54(1), 2-19.

CLASS TEN/ : Human trafficking and anti-trafficking
Required readings One of the following:
Andrijasevic, R. (2007). Beautiful dead bodies: Gender, migration and representation in
antitrafficking campaigns. Feminist Review, 86(1), 24-44.
Ham, J. (2020). Anti-trafficking in Southeast Asia. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of
Criminology and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.612

CLASS ELEVEN/: Globalizing humanitarianism
Required readings
One of the following:
Hoang, K.K. (2016) Perverse humanitarianism and the business of rescue: What’s wrong
with NGOs and what’s right with the johns? Political Power and Social Theory 30(1), 19-43.
Henriksen, S. (2018). Consuming life after anti-trafficking. Anti-Trafficking Review, (10).
https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201218102

CLASS TWELVE /Last class (Summary of class) and Take-home test
There are no readings this week.