globalisation L6 winners & losers Flashcards
(18 cards)
What is Westernisation?
spreading of american and western european culture & values through all strands of globalisation
What is Global Shift?
economic centre of gravity moving around the globe according to where the highest GDP is
What is The Clarke-Fisher Model?
4Ds
Deindustrialisation
Depopulation
Dereliction
Deprivation
Coca Cola in India
ECONOMIC
Positives:
- coke has invested over $1 billion in India
- coca cola foundation in India has spent over $10 million dollars on community programmes
- coke in India indirectly employed 150k and directly employs 6k
negatives:
- profit leaks abroad to American shareholders
- retailers aren’t allowed to stock coke alternatives
Coca Cola in India
SOCIAL
positives:
- the 150k employed creates a positive multiplier effect
- provided coolers that keep products cool for up to 12 hours
- has set up a mobile training unit for retailers**
negatives:
- decline of traditional juice vendors — coke created a monopoly
- can distance themselves from franchise operators — avoid controversy
- employ temp staff — circumnavigating labour laws on unions
- workers forced to work without proper safety equipment
Coca Cola in India
ENVIRONMENTAL
Positives:
- nowt
negatives:
- takes 3.8 litres of water to make one litre of coke
- water tables have decreased by 1 metre a year since coke has been operating in india
- draining local water aquifers — coke bottling plant in KERALA
- Kerala and other areas contaminated with chemicals including lead and chromium
Coca Cola in India
POLITICAL
positives:
- states have offered subsidised water, land and tax breaks to coca cola
negatives:
- due to falling yields, people in Kerala (916) have migrated to other villages in search of work
what is a pull factor
factors attracting people to move to a place
what is a push factor
factor pushing people to move out of an area
what is urbanisation
the moving of people from rural to urban areas
what is a refugee
someone fleeing conflict or persecution
what is an asylum seeker
someone who claims to be a refugee but the circumstances behind that have not been evaluated
What are Global Hub Cities?
connected cities
megacities
Lee’s Migration Theory
ORIGIN
Push:
- lack of education, hospitals, food
- high labour low wages
Pull:
- cheaper
- family links
INTERVENING OBSTACLES
- poor transport
- mountains
- seas
- border controls & language barriers & red tape
- family pressure
DESTINATION
Push:
- expensive
- separate from family
Pull:
- employment
- FDI by TNCs
- higher standard of living
- education is better standard
- better quality & access to healthcare
Channel crossing in the UK
- 113 mil people forced to flee tbeir homes in 2023 - 74% have managed to seek safety in a neighbouring country
- crossing from France go the UK has cost more than 400 lives since 1999
UK acknowledges and accepts more world crisis events than other countries (Mini USA, english speaking, easier to get to)
uses immigration as a front page topic — xenophobia & dehumanisation
what is Centripetal Migration
movement of people directed towards the centre of urban areas
Mumbai — Dharavi
1 million people within 1 square mile
- 80% waste recycled
- open sewers
- crime rate below 1%
- 500 people share 1 toilet
- unregulated working hours & conditions — 16 hour shifts common
- life expectancy 7 years below India’s average
Russian Oligarch Billionaires
- invest property in London
- live there sometimes
- can easily send their children to the UKs elite private schools
- can move money out of Russia and into London
