This course is designed to introduce a broad set of issues and approaches to the study of international migration and settlement.  The first half of the course will survey a number of key concepts and theories of migration, with emphasis on the role of the state and regulatory systems.  The second half of the course will concentrate on three immigrant-reception regions—Canada, the USA, and Europe—and explore topics at the forefront of academic research in each.  On Canada, we will consider the ways that national regulation of migration are gendered, and also the debates that have arisen over the apparent decline in the economic fortunes of immigrants.  The latter issue will be taken up again when we turn to the USA, and examine the concept of segmented assimilation that has arisen in that context.  Europe will be used as a stage to discuss the relationship between migration and the national (or supra-national) imaginary, as well as the relationship between asylum, human rights, and attempts to regulate (supra)national borders.  Finally, the course will close on the question of incorporation policies, particularly the recent challenges to the idea of multiculturalism, which was so widely supported a generation ago.