Migration Flashcards
(148 cards)
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what is the clarke fisher model?
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shows a change in a countries economic sector balance
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what is an asylum seeker?
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a person who has left their country and is seeking protection from persecution, violence or death
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what is the first flow of political movement within a country? 4 change in government view
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- change in government view
- Myanmar changed in practised patronage to the Buddhist majority
- persecution of Rohingya Muslims
- 78% identified as illegal migrants so villages were burnt
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what is the second flow of political movement between countries? 4 conflict between countries
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- conflict between countries led to migration
- 2014 annexation of russia to grow land -> built a bridge and sent 150,000 ethnic russins to vote
- increased likehood of Ukraine joining NATO
- full scale invasion in FEB 2022
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what is the third flow of political movement both within and between countries? 5 when a government lose legitimacy
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- when a government lose legitimacy
- ARAB SPRINGS uprising in 2010 led to revolution of young people
- created a power void
- created civil war
- by 2015 1 million migrants crossed the med sea
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what are the three main environmental reasons for the migration of people?
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1 - increase flood
2 - increase drought
3 - increase sea levels
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1 - how can increase in flood lead to an increase in migration? 4
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- increase in enhanced greenhouse affect
- increased volume and intensity of tropical storms
- increase intensity of monsoon rainfall in areas such as pakistan
- aug 2022 78.4% more rain
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2 - how has increases in drought led to increased migration? 6
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- expansion of the hadley cell led to stronger convection currents along the ITCZ
- increase areas having high pressure weather systems
- meteorological drought to agricultural
- NE Syria 800,000 farmers lost income and 85% of livestock died
- forced 300,000 families to migrate
- increase population density and strain on services
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3 - how has an increase in sea levels led to increased migration? 4
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- increase global temperatures
- eustatic sea level rise which is caused by thawing of cryosphere and thermal expansion
- increase in tropical storms
- increase in coastal flooding
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how has globalisation led to the increased flow of information due to social media? 2
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through filming protests and putting it on social media
creation of viral hashtags which put pressure on governments
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what are the 2 consequences of mena migration on the eu?
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1 - death
2 - increased closed door policies
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how has death impacted the EU?
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- migrants don’t have documentation
- must travel illegally
- used overloaded inflatable boats
- many don’t make the crossing and drown
- 2014 missing migrants project recorded 20,000 death of migrants
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how has an increase in closed door policies impacted migration?
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- governments fear migration
- increase strain on resources and services
- countries create obstacles such as tightening boarder controls
- fund coastal patrols to stop the start of the journey
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what is assimilation?
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adoption of culture by a minority group
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what is ethnicity?
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state of belonging to a social gorup
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what is culture?
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ideas of customs and social behaviour about food and music
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what is dispora?
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a dispensed group of people with a shared cultral background who have spread internationally
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what are the 4 negative postives and negatives with percetiopns of migration?
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1 - social
2 - economic
3 - demographic
4 - cultral
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what is a social postive view of migration? Tax
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- increased migration leads to inncreased viewpoints
- REALTIY pay more in tax
- 2016-17 migrant paid £3750 more in tax
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what is a social negative view of migration?
increased migration into urban areas
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- increased migration into urban areas
- increased desntiy and strain on services
- government budgets are split over more people
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what is an economic postive of migration?
filling labour gaps
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- migrants fill labour gaps
- 26% of doctors are foreign
- businesses can optimaly produce
- increase revenue
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what is an economic negative of migration?
increased competition of jobs
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- increased competition of jobs
- increased pressure for incomes
- employment increased due to pandemic
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what is a demographic positive for migration?
young people
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- more younger migrants into a area
- more working age
- increase health and care for older generation
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what is a demographic negative for migration?
brain drain
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- source countris view migration as a negative with periphery to core happening
- brain and broun drain can occure leading to a decrease in working aged people
- spiral of decline will occur
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what is a cultral positive for migration?
more cultrues
- disphore assimilate into the majority cultrue and willincrease choice of culture
- increase quality of lived experience
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what is a cultral negative of migration?
cultral erosion
- peopl fear cultral erosion may occur
- Mexico 1/5 of pop is hispanic
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what is soverignty?
rights to a country to it's own government
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what is a nation state?
soverign state where citizens are limited by factors
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what is cultral unity?
similar cultrue
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what is lignusitic unity?
similar language
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what is the flow for Iceland achieving cultra unity?
McDonalds
- achieved cultral unity due to physical location
- cold climate affects agricultre
- abundence of fish
- import of fresh food was difficult
- failure of McDonalds due to people not wanting fast food
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what is the flow for iceland achieving lingusitic unity?
- achieved linguistic unity due to physical isolation
- 750 miles from Scotland
strong culture so language was developed
- 98% fluent in English for tourism
- makes it difficult to learn
- may act a barrier to migrants so makes culture stronger
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what is the flow for Singapore achieving cultral unity?
- embracing diversity as part of it's culture
- physical location means it has links to trading
one of the largest ports
- attracted economic migrants - 40% of the population
- 1964 race riots due to government not uniting the cultures
have a day to celebrate
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what is the flow of Singapore achieving lingusitic unity?
- development of a shared language
- Singlish is a combination of English and Chinese
- encourages cultural unitygovernment use English to speak so try to make people speak it
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what are the 2 types of boarders?
ones created by physical objects such as mountins
ones created by wars and civil conflicts
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what are the 3 main obsticles for PHYSICAL boarders?
1 - mountains
2 - seas and oceans
3 - rivers
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how are mountains affecting migration?
difficult to cross in winter
heavy snowfall meaninbg decreased oxygen
sepcialist equipment needed
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how are oceans affecting migration?
strong currents and increased use of boats
dangerous to cross
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how are rivers affecting migration?
high dishcharge in winter
dangerous to cross
safest route is a bridge
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what is the case study for post colonial boarders?
Rwanda genocide
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what is the flow of post colonial control in Rwanda?
- Belgium took control of Rwanda post ww12 - Hutus (85) and Tutsies (14.1%) and Belgium sided with the Tutsies3- national and ethnic cards were produced- riots made when belgium left tutsies in charge5 - resentment grew with the Hutus6 - the government lost legitimiacy7 - president killed and started the genocide
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what are the 2 case studies for contested boarders?
Crimea and Taiwan
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how was nationalism achieved in the 19th century
through empire building
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how did the British Empire rise to superpower status?
1 - used superior naval forces to take control
2 - forced culture along the population eg, sports,, education
3 - gained independene
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what are the 4 main reasons for the decline in empires?
1 - high cost of war
2 - growing resistance to colonial rule
3 - young Europeans protesting
4 - shifting economic sector balence -> moving away from manufacturing
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how is a power vacuum created in an empire?
empires were dismantled faster than they were being built.
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what happens after a power vacuum has been created in a country?
the army take control of the country
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what are the 3 costs in relation to the DRC?
economic
environmental
social
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what is the flow for economic costs with the DRC? mobutu
-resource curse so prone to exploitation
- Mobutu established on exploitation of resources
- made it difficult for TNC investment
- little advancement
- corrupt government
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what is the environmental costs with the DRC?
- subsequent internal conflict
- UN had to bring peacekeepers
- led to establishment of refugee camps
- 18,000 peacekeepers sent
- building of shelter made deforestation increase
- habitat loss
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what is the social cost of the DRC?
political instability since decolonisation
- led to questioning of legitimacy
- regime challenge to Mobutu resulted in a 6 nation war
- 5 billion deaths and main reason as to why the HDI score is so low
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what is the case study for post colonial conflict? Vietnam
- Vietnam taken over by Japan
- split into 2 (north = communist) south = capitalsit
- during cold war soviet military backed a campaign to capture the south of Vietnam
- 1964 South Vietnam was on the brink of a defeat so US assisted
- 1970 -> US withdrew after loss
- Vietnam became a socialist republic
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what are the 3 flows for Vietnam with conflict between the north and south?
social
environmental
economic
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what is the social flow for Vietnam?
4 million wee killed in the war
50% were innocent citizens
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what is the environmental flow for Vietnam?
agent orange and herbicide defoliant was used to remove the natural cover
- deforestation and contamination decreased the biodiversity
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how much did the war in Vietnam cost?
$950 million
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what are the 2 flows for how colonialism has impacted post-colonial patterns of migration?
language
education
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how has language assimilated itself into Vietnam after the war?
- was forced into English being the language
- provided opportunity to residents of Caribbean countries to fill labour gaps
- increase confidence to migrate
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how has education been assimilated itself into Vietnam after the war?
- students were taught the English curriculum
- doctors travelled to the former colonies such as India and Pakistan
- medical schools used the same textbooks as in these countries
- increased confidence to migrate
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how have developments in communication technology allowed for the development of tax havens?
- fibre optic cables allow for data to be transferred
- increased speed and volume of flows of capital to tax havens
- led to eco development within tax havens and growth ofi services
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how have developments in transport technology allowed for the development of tax havens?
- jet aircraft led to a shrinking world
- more of the world is accessible such as British Virgin Islands
- easier for people to migrate to tax havens to help grow financially
- increase populations and creates a +ve multiplier
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how has the global shift of services and manufacturing allowed for the development of tax havens?
- increased profits for TNCs will want to keep as much as possible
- allows them to reinvest and keep shareholders happy
- run profits through tax havens to help reduce coorporatin tax liability
- tax havens grow and leads to growth of the CEOs and grant residency in the Tax Havens
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how can the globalisation of culture allow for the development of tax havens?
- spread of western ideas of capitalism
- facilitates growth of tax havens
- rates of tax become competitive when trying to encourage FDI
- Ireland -> 12% and attracted investment from TNCS -> Starbucks
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what are the 3 main areas that tax havens with benefit? groups
1 - high network people
2 - residents of tax haves
3 - large businesses
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how do tax havens benefit hight network people?
- can decrease income tax by living in another country
- increased disposable income
- reinvest in assets that will grow
- increased spends on goods and services = TRICKLE DOWN
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how do tax havens benefit residents of tax havens?
- job creation related to different sectors due to large capital movements
- British Virgin Islands hold 5,000 its net worth in foreign investments
- increase employment and creates +ve multiplier effect
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how can tax havens benefit large businesses?
- run profits through a tax haven
- increase amount of profit
- reinvest in research and tech
- increase quality of the product
- increase sales and profits
- increased reinvestment
- increased efficiency and production eg Amazon
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what are the 2 costs of tax havens? groups
governments of non-tax havens
small and medium businesses
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how do tax havens cause a cost on governments of non-tax havens? Kenya
- suffer from capital flight as TNCs are locating there
- $89 billion a year is lost from Kenya = 30% tax
- governent revenues from the tax promote socio-economic development such as education
- requires loans from WB and so have to open to FDI
- DEPENDENCY THEORY -> underdevelopment
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how do tax havens cause a cost to small and medium businesses?
out competed by larger firms due to quality and cost
- don't have profit to engage in tax avoidance in tax havens
- pay more in tax and so limits the use of reinvestment
- TNCs will lobby governments
- TNCs take control of weaker environmental legislation
- use TNCS in SAPS
- use extraction to create habitat loss
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what are the 4 main reasons as to why TNCs may not move to a tax haven?
1 - large scale manufacturing company
2 - concerned about reputational damage
3 - need a high skill workforce
4 - firm needs to transfer pricing
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why might a TNC not locate to a tax haven? - large scale manufacturing companies
- tax havens hold small populations eg-> British Virgin Islands 31,000
- smaller labour pool of workers to work for low cost
- smaller market
- involves transportation cost that will decrease profits
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why might a TNC not locate to a tax haven? - concerned about reputational damage
- may decrease sales and profits such as Starbucks paid £0 in tax and had £380 million in sales
- led to protests outside stores in big cities
- contained images of consequences of avoidance of tax
- led to decreased sales on those days
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why might a TNC not locate to a tax haven? - firm requires a high skilled workforce
- can often obnly be accessed in a high tax country
- UK -> 26% tax and the avergae years of schooling is 17
- better qualified and more productive
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why might a TNC not locate to a tax haven? - if a firm uses transfer pricing
- no need to relocate due to opening of stores in high and low tax locations
- fiancial exchange will occur BETWEEN THE STORES
- decrease profit in high tax
- overall pays less in tax
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What is the IGO of OECO?
Maintains a black list of countries operating as tax havens as a warning to TNCS
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What is the IGO of The world economic forum?
Creates a global 25% rather of cooperation tax
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How has the UN grown in importance? Growth in membership? 1945, 1960s
- created in 1945 with 51 member states
- grew to 193 during 1960s
- aims to prevent war, protect rights
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How is the Un growing in importance since 1945? Growing number of agencies within and those that act on behalf of the UN
- increased scale of objectives
- currently specialised agencies impacting in the UNs behalf
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What is an example of a part of the UN?
WHO - headquarters in Switzerland
- deals with sanitation and health
- covid 19 was dealt with the
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How is the UN increasing in importance since 1945? Growing number of convections
- universal declaration of human rights in 1948
- led to establishment of human rights council
- form organisation such as Geneva convention
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How has the UN responding to global conflicts? Approves economic sanctions
- member states agree to restrict trade on cultural events
- bring a change in foreign policy
- UNSC resolution against Iran in 2006 in response to use of nuclear weapons
- some sanctions are to be used with the approval of UNSC
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What is the case study for the UN resolving conflicts in relation to sanctions?
UNSC against Iran in 2006 due to use of nuclear weapons
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How has the UN responding to global conflicts? Sending troops to conflict zones
- known as peacekeepers
- made up of armed forces and member states
- they prevent conflict and enforce peace
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What is 1 example of peacekeepers being sent by the UN
1999 peacekeepers sent to the DRC costing £10 billion
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How does the UN act to global conflicts and issues? UN is limited in the ability to intervene? vetoes a decision
- perminant members if the UNSC vetoes a decision
- member states take a uni-lateral interview
- if action is taken they are powerless
- UK AND US intervention in Afghanistan in 2001
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What is the aim of Breton woods as an IGO?
- avoid protectionism of the 1930s
- viewed as harmful to world trade
- widespread unemployment
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World bank increasing trade
- founded in 1944
- loans for poverty reduction and economic development
- PHILLIPINED 2014 with $470 milllion loan
- to improve farm to market roads led to 5% increase in incomes
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When was the world trade founded?
1944
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IMF increasing trade?
- lend money in times of crisis
- GHANA 2015 $918 million loan
- high interest loans
- increase eco growth from 22% in 2015 to 88% in 2019
Gives more job opportunities
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World trade organisation increasing trade
- promote free trade
- DOHA ROUND 2001 whih. Reduce use of agricultural subsidies
- give developing countries an advantage in lower cost markets to help them develop
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USA increasing influence over Bretton woods
- influence over world bank
- all presidents have been Americans and HQ in Washington
- free markers have been called Washington concensus
- use influence to gain support for economic policies
- forces countries to make alternative economic models
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WTO increasing trade by TNC takeover
- removal of protectant measures
- -be for infant industries who don’t have the resources of TNCS
- can be outcompeted by TNC
- TNCS becoming only option
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Failure of WTO with trade blocs.
- enlarged markets can create economies of scale
- countries discover they have compulsory advantage as firms emerge
- common external tariff oritects firms from overseas imorts
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How many trade blocs are in existence?
30
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USMCA
Free trade bloc encouraging free trade between US, Mexico and Canada
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Mercosur pact
Customs union with a common external tarrif
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what was the Montreal protocol of 1987?
- 1960s UNEP called for a response due to ozone depletion
- cfc's in fridges and areosols
- caused an increase in UV rays
- signed in 1987
- stopped producing cfc's
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what was the climate change agreement?
- 1993 first rasied an issue
- Kyoto Protocol 1997
- new international agreement in 2015
- reduce carbon emmissions and keep avg temp 1.5* above pre-industrial levels
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why was the 2015 paris agreement a failure?
rich governments are based on carbon
- did not meet targets and so would not pay poor countries and compensation
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what was the convention on interational trade in endangered species of wild flora and favna (CITES) 1975
- set in 1975
- banned trade in threatned species and their products
- adapted by 183 countries
- led to recovery of Hawaiian birds
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how has the rising wealth of china and indoeasia allowing for failures in relation to the enviroment?
- increase trade in illegal substances such as rhino horn
- needs a cultral shift away from these products
- focus on species not ecosystems and deforestation is not always reduced
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what is the millennium ecosystem assessment? ecosystem
- international collaberation helped popularise ecosystem services approach
- financial value is calculated for threatned biomes
- ecosystem services fit well with capatalist values
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what are the 3 roles of the UNCLOS? (UN convention on law of the sea
1 - protection of marine biodiversity
2 - regulates global shipping flows
3 - protect the rights of landlocked countries
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how can UNCLOS protect marine biodiversity? 1910-79 and 1982
- requires 167 signitures to follow the Whaling commission
- 1910-79 there were 2.4 mill kiilled
- 1982 IWC issued ban on commerical whale hunting under CITES
- whale numbers increased
- not all states agreed
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what is UNCLOS?
- defines boundries of coastal zones for countries
- area extends 200 natuical miles into the ocean into an exclusive economic zone
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how does UNCLOS regulate global shipping flows?
- 90% of global trade involves sea travel
- ships cause pollution so expected to follow rules
- allowed retirerment of oil tankers making it illegal to clean out tanks with sea water
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how does UNCLOS protect the rights of landlocked states?
- 42 states have no coast
- landlocked states have access to the ocean
- without taxation allows them to move
- N oversaw the cliam to Bolivia to Chile
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what is the Helsinki water convention in 1992?
- guidleines on use of rivers and groundwater on crossing of national boarders
- prior to Helsinki, assumed water in their states was their to exploit
- now want a share so people further downstream have good flow
- rules updated in 2004
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what is the antartic treaty system?
- to set aside antartica as a scientific preserve
- established the freedom of scientific investigation
- treaty started in 1961 and as 63 parties
- mining was banned and seals
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what are the 3 factors influencing nationalism?
1 - political parties
2 - sporting events
3 - closed door policies and media aswell as education
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how has political parties influenced nationalism?
- promote awarness of their view EG UKIP
- belive membership of EU is a loss os soverignty
- 2015 general election voters were pressurised into getting a referendum
- part of UKIP campaign is to increase national pride
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how has sporting events influenced nationalism?
- olympics generated a desire for the success of a nation
- LONDON 2012
- medals and flags with national anthem
- increased national pride aswell as the opening ceremony such as queen and the NHS
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how has sporting events influenced nationalism?
- olympics generated a desire for the success of a nation
- LONDON 2012
- medals and flags with national anthem
- increased national pride aswell as the opening ceremony such as queen and the NHS
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how has closed door policies, global media and education infleunced nationalism?
- specification for certain subjects aims to include content that has national pride
- WW1 and WW2 used Britain's role as a leader of allied forces and schools attended remeberence day papades
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how does the USA tie national identity to distinctive legal systems?
- provides written constitution with high levels of clarity detailing the rights of people
- ARTICLE 2 - citizens enjoy freedoms and protect the rights and freedoms
- consolidate the rights in the national anthem
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how does national identity tie to methods of governance? DEMOCRACY
- governing party is elected by the population
- makes governing party accountable to the population
- becomes part of policies that become the idenity -> EUQLAITY ACT
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what are the 2 types of government styles?
1 - democracy
2 - dictatorship
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how does national identity tie to methods of governance? DICTATORSHIP
- don't have a say in leadership and present a strong military image RUSSIA
- act in ways to promote ideas such as the invasion of the Crimea
- solidifies their identity as a military superpower
- further used with propoganda
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What are the 3 ways of national idenity being tied to national character?
1 - monarchy
2 - food and drink
3 - currency and stamps
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how does the monarchy help national identity be tied to national character?
- recognisable symble of porud part of Britain
- becomes part of national pride
- shown in big events
- ROYAL WEDDINGS
- Harry and Meghan's wedding with 1.9 billion people watched it
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how many people tuned into Harry and Meghan's wedding?
1.9 billion people
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how does food and drink help national identity to be tied to national character?
- iconic dishes can become part of the character
- ENGLISH BREAKFAST AND FISH AND CHIPS
- projected across the boarders such as Meditterainian countries have established English dishes
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how does currency and stamps help national idendity to be tied to national character?
- part of the national symbolism
- £ is a symbol of stability
- UK CURRENCY HAS IMAGE OF MONARCH
- coins can show images of pride OLYMPICS AND PETER RABBIT
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how can national identity tie to landscapes?
BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE
- strong association in Englnad
- UK ESTABLISHED LAKE DISTRICT and gave areas access and protect them
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what are the 3 ways that TNC's are becoming a threat to national idenity?
1 - TNC ownership of national companies
2 - TNC's cause westernisation
3 - TNCs cause changes in language
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how can TNC ownership of national companies create a threat to nayional identity?
- traditonal brands -> UK CADBURY
- many companies have brands liked with british values -> JAGUAR LANDROVER owned by TATA which use the slogan made in Britain by 50% of components are pproduced in another country and then are shipped to the UK
- by being part of an Indian owned means decisions were made in India
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what is the case study for TNC ownership of national companies creating a threat of national idenity?
JAGUAR LANDROVER by TATA
50% of components are pproduced in another country and then are shipped to the UK
- by being part of an Indian owned means decisions were made in India
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how can TNCs causing westernisation lead to a threat of national identity?
- spread of Western culture
- when a TNC outsources the workforce are exposed by it's products
- desire these products and leads to a change in culture
- makke money and consume
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what is the case study for TNC's casuing westernisation threatning national idenity?
APPLE IN THE US
- aiming to promote change in culutre from repair to replace
- use planned obselesence such as BATTERY LIFE AND SOFTWARE UPDATES
- products are used in culture
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how can TNC's take national idenity into account when they are designng their products?
- MCDONALDS OPERATING IN 100+ COUNTRIES
- use GLOCALISATION -> INDIA have veggis which consider a cow a sacred meat so created the spicy Paneer burger
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how can TNC's cause chnages in language lead to a thret of national identity?
- language is one of the largest parts of national idenity
- global media companies produce songs in English
- consumed by global audience and absorb the english lang
- people will adopt the cultral traits that facilite the growth of their socio-econnomic status
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what are te 3 consequences of foreign ownership in the UK?
1 - economic impact - increase in tax avoidence
2 - economic impact - increase repatriated profits
3 - social impact - impact on community coheision
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how can foreign ownership in the UK lead to an increase in tax avoidence/
- TNCs engage in transfer pricing as TNCs are footloose and operate in multiple countries
- report low profits in high tax countries to decrease cooperation tax liability
- this will decrease revenue for nat gov and decrease spend on public servcies
EG- UK with 25% of tax
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how can foreign ownership in the UK lead to an increase in repatriated profit?
- dividens are paid to foreign shareholders
- profits are no longer in the UK and money is spent elseware
- decreased trickle down and less re-investment
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how can foreign ownership in the UK lead to an impact of community cohesion?
- large amounts of proporty is owned by foreign investors
- 50% OF LONDON IS OWNED BY RUSSIAN INVESTORS
- invest in proporty for capital gain
- proporties are left vacant and decrease avaliabity of proporty
- decrease in supply and increased demand due to investment portential#
- can lead to displacement of local population
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what are the 3 consequences of political and cutrla disunity within nations?
1 - emergence of strong nationalist groups
2 - another consequence can be civil unrest in protesting
3 - increased child mortality
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how can the emergence of strong nationalist groups be a consequence of political and cultral diksunity? Scotland
- promotion of intrests of a particular nation with the aim of increasing soverignty
- SCOTLAND with very little support for English conservatives
- 2019 general election had 48/59 seats won by the national party
- resulted in policital tensions
- made worse by Brexit vote and want to gain independence
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how can civil unrest in the form of protest be a consequence of political and cultral disunity? Brazil
- can be caused by uneven pattern of costs and benfeits of globalisation
- BRAZIL and the gini-coefficient to measure development showing high wealth
- BRAZIL HOSTED THE WORLD CUP IN 2014
- people belive that money should be spent on the poor
- 7 million protested
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what is the case study for civil unrest in the form of protest be a consequence of politial and cultral disunity?
BRAZIL - hosted 1024 world cup
- 7 million protested about money being spent on stadiums not on the poor
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how can an increase in child mortality be a consequence of political and cultral disunity?
- often a consequence of failed states
- located in developing areas
- SOMALIA by colonial boarders which led to a power vaccum
- 1991 military regime was overthrown leading to disunity
- 2000 attempted to form a government
- no control over the government
- child mortality was high
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what is the case study for an increase in child mortality due to political and social disunity?
SOMALIA with colonial boarders
- 1991 military regime was overthrown leading to disunity
- 2000 attempted to form a government
- no control over the government
- child mortality was high
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what are the 3 reasons for soverign states varying in order of levels of political unity?
1 - political reasons
2 - economic reasons
3 - both
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why might there be internal conflict in China?
gov and reigon of Hong Kong with protests taking place
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why might there be internal conflicgt in India?
religous differences between Hindu and Muslim
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what are the 2 causes for weak national identity?
1 - quality and type of governance
2 - divisons between ethnic groups
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how can quality and type of governance cause for weak identity?
- results in divisons in pop
- developing nations may have governing officials who operate closly with local elites and cooperations
- rank highly on the glolbal corruption index
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how can the divisions between ethnic groups cause for weak idenityty?
- legacy of colonisalism - SKYKES-PICO LINE
- SYRIA divided with 65% Sunni and 12% Allowis
- patrognage and corruption by regime meant other ethnic groups were unrepresented
- decreased legitimacy of governments
- results in conflict between groups
- decreases nat idenityt
