This course deals with immigration, emigration and relations between immigrants and the elites and institutions of their countries of origin and destination. Throughout the year, we will talk about the various dilemmas faced by immigrants and refugees, as well as the governments and societies in the country they immigrated to and the country they emigrated from. We will examine these issues from a theoretical and generalized perspective, but we will also analyze specific historical and contemporary cases from different regions of the world. This is a graduate course that is also open to outstanding undergraduate students in the third year of their degree. It requires intensive reading of primary and secondary sources and discussing them in the classroom.