Demography- globalisation Flashcards
What is globalisation?
The interconnectedness of society
What is one negative consequence of migration and globalisation?
Human trafficking
What is human trafficking and how is this done?
Human trafficking is the movement of a person from one place to another in condition of exploitation
e.g. for domestic services, sex, work or organ harvesting
Why is human trafficking modern day slavery?
Trafficking doesn’t give consent so they have no freedom to get rewards of get out
How can human trafficking impacting family life?
-Causes emotional strain
-Separation of family
-Family members are unsure as cant be contacted
-Children with nanny may cause emotional relationship
Globalisation and birth + fertility?
BR increasing due to difficult and religious values as migrant women likely to have larger family
-Female migration younger therefore more likely to start a family during this time
Globalisation and family diversity?
-More diversity due to different cultures: south asia-extended, nuclear, less diversity, young marriage
Caribbean- matriarchal, less marriage, fictive kin
Victor- globalisation and family diversity?
Elderly south asians are less sure today that they will be cared for by their children
Feminisation of migration- Ehrenreich and Hochschild?
Half of immigrants are women
Claim care work, domestic work and sex work in UK and USA is increasingly done by women in poorer countries
-Due to more service sector jobs employing women
-Western women are in work force so don’t have time for domestic work
-Lack of affordable childcare
Global transfer of emotional labour?
Migrant nannies providing care and affection for their employers children at expense of own
Migration- breaking up of families?
Strict rules about immigrants bringing family members to the UK
A minimum income requirement must be met before family can join workers in uk
-Impact family diversity as increase in shared households (migrants share) and one person household
