Explain how globalisation has affected trends in migration (5)✅ Flashcards
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Define the term globalisation
The idea that barriers between societies are disappearing and people are becoming increasingly interconnected across national boundries.
What processes are giving rise to globalisation?
-growth in communication systems and global media, creation of global markets, the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and the expansion of the European Union.
How does today’s pattern of super diversity differ from pre 1900 migration?
Since the 1900s globalisation has led to what Vertovec calls ‘super diversity’. Migrants now come from a much wider range of countries.
In your view, which type of migrant (citizen, denizen, helot) are asylum seekers most likely to be?
Helots,this is because they are the most exploited group, with states and employers regarding them as ‘disposable units of labour power’.
In what ways does the feminisation of migration reflect the gender division of labour in western societies?
Almost half of all global migrants are female, calling it the globalisation of the gender division of labour, where female migrants find that they are fitted into patriarchial stereotypes about women’s roles as carers or providers of sexual services.
Give an example of a hybrid identity.
Made up of two or more different sources.
What is meant by hierarchal identities?
Eade found second generation Bangladeshi Muslims in Britain created heirarcheal identities, saw themselves as Muslim, then Bangladeshi, then British.
What does Eriksen mean by transnational identities?
Globalisation has created more diverse migration patterns, with back and forth movements of people through networks rather than permenant settlement in another country. As a result, grants are less likely to see themselves as belonging completely to one culture or country. Instead they may develop transnational neither/or identities and loyalties.
What is meant by assimilationism? Why might it be a controversial policy?
The first state policy approach to immmigration. It aimed to encourage immigrants to adopt the language, values and customs of the host culture to make them ‘like us’. However assimilationist policies face the problem that transnational migrants with hybrid identities may not be willing to abandon their culture or to see themselves as belonging to just one nation state.
What is meant by multiculturalism?
Accepts that migrants may wish to retain a separate cultural identity. However in practice this acceptance may be limited to more superficial aspects of cultural diversity.
Why is shallow diversity more likely to be accepted than deep diversity?
An example of shallow diversity is like regarding chicken tikka masala as britains national dish, is acceptable to the state, whereas, deep diversity sucks as arranged marriages or the veiling of women is not acceptable to the state.
Why has ther been a move back towards assimilation policies in recent years?
After the 911 terrorist attack
Why does castle see assimilationalist policies as counter productive?
They mark out other minority groups as culturally backward or other. This leads to the minority emphasising their differences. It may also cause workers to blame migrants for social problems such as employment. This benefits capitalism by creating racially divided w/c and preventing united action in defence of their interests.
