Often when discussing immigration, especially to America, it is described as moving in pursuit of expanded opportunities. In Taxi! and The Transplanted this narrative is complicated as Mathew (2005) and Bodnar (1985) highlight that migration to and within the US …
In his article “How Coronavirus is Shaking Up the Moral Universe”, John Authers discusses how utilitarianism could shape COVID response by highlighting Boris Johnson’s “herd immunity” strategy. Authers calls this “brutally utilitarian”, arguing that while many would die through this …
In stating that “workers have no country” Marx suggests that workers have more in common as a class than they do as citizens of a nation. For example, an industrial worker in England and a shipping worker in India are …
In his chapter “Normative and Theoretical Foundations on Human Rights” Anthony Langlois sets out to explain the philosophical and political frameworks which have established conceptions of individual human rights through rational rights based on Christian Theology in the pre-enlightenment period, …
In The Condition of the Working Class in England and in “What’s Good About Slums” both Engels and Glaesner set out to describe what drives poor people to move to cities, the conditions of the urban poor, and the opportunities …
The assigned resources for this week examine the work of the Young Lords and the more recently organized Red Nation in liberatory projects. Notably, both groups represent people who have experienced large-scale urban migration, largely because colonialist projects have decimated …
In this project, I aim to trace the relationship between the right to the city and homeless use of public space. To that end, I will first discuss the origins of the right to the city in urban sociology. …
