During the last half a century, different people from Africa, Eastern Europe, have been moving from one area to another, looking for a better habitat. This has been a world wide phenomenon that has changed hundreds of thousands of lives, producing imperfect utopias. This course will focus on the assimilation of families and individuals to different cultures, as well as how the new country deals with this, many time rejecting the "other". Cinema and literature have been a great source to understand the drama of migration, and the course will use extensively these forms of artistic representation. Authors include Ángel Vásquez, Jorge Semprún, Mahi Binebine, Ariel Dorfman, Alberto Fuguet, Zoé Valdés, and Julia Álvarez.