Selected issues and debates in current anthropology. Two topics are offered Fall 2020. Section A1: Migration, (Im)mobilities & Precarity. Addresses the regulation of human mobility and practices of inclusive exclusion in a globalized era, with an ethnographic focus on undocumented migrants. Explores the interconnections between legal status, economic precarity, cultural marginalization and political mobilization as well as their impact on differentiated citizenship and belonging. Section A2: Desiring Memorials: Afterlives of Mass Violence and the Pursuit of Justice. An exploration of key debates in anthropology on mass violence, genocide, memory, history and justice. Discussion examines the ways that memory and memorials are being mobilized to make human rights arguments. Engagement with works by political and legal theorists, historians, anthropologists and novelists in order to survey and examine the human condition at stake in a course on mass violence and the pursuit of justice.