We live in a world shaped by the movement of humans, animals and non-human goods, and we are subjected to state hierarchies of sex, gender, race, and class that control and capitalize on this movement. In contexts of armed conflict, these hierarchies become weaponized. War forces mobility for some, while others - often the vast majority -, are forced to stay put. This course unsettles familiar humanitarian categories of displacement and examines instead diverse histories of exile and diasporic world-making. Taking lessons from comparative ethnographic studies in Mexico-US, the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Europe, we will consider the myriad ways that people relate, work, associate and trade in war, including as foreign fighters, gold smugglers, and exiled activists. The course foregrounds an interdisciplinary curriculum on war and migration that combines anthropological tools of critique and questioning with visual media, activist manifestos, and guest speakers who will join our discussion.