Your final project for this course will have three parts: an annotated bibliography, a research summary, and a creative presentation to the class. We will discuss the timeline and specifics of each part of the project when we return from Spring Break, but it is time to begin thinking about your topic! Your topic must be, in some way, related to our theme of DISPLACEMENT.

Below I have listed some very broad ideas of subjects related to the theme. These are only intended to get your creative juices going. The topics listed are quite broad and would need to be narrowed considerably to become workable research topics. Once you have an idea of a topic, you need to formulate a research question. What are you hoping to learn or figure out about your topic?

By Sunday, April 23rd, please post THREE possible research topics to our class blog (as independent posts). Indicate the topic you are interested in and the question you are asking about your topic. All three of these ideas should be things that genuinely interest you!!!

Displacement Topic Ideas

Anything related to immigration:

Trump’s immigration policy

Immigration from a particular place at a particular time

A particular aspect of the immigrant experience – immigration during childhood, for example.

Immigrant labor

Experience of being an illegal immigrant

Immigrant neighborhoods in NYC

Anything related to topic of refugees:

Experience of Jewish refugees in WWII

Life in contemporary refugee camps

America’s role in current refugee crisis

Refugees adjusting to life in Europe

Moral/ethical dilemmas raised by issue

Adoption

Experiences of moving that aren’t related to immigration – what does it mean to start somewhere new?

Migrant workers

Gender and Displacement – Is being transgender a form of displacement?

Language and Displacement – bilingualism, language and education

Nursing Homes (the elderly and displacement)

Amish practice of Rumschpringen

Space exploration

Experience of field anthropologists

School integration

Eviction

Convents, Monasteries, and other forms of escaping the secular world

Siblings and psychological displacement

Adjustment to the armed forces

Homelessness

Gentrification