Demography - Globalisation and Migration Flashcards
What is globalisation?
The idea that barriers between societies are disappearing and people are becoming increasingly interconnected across natural boundaries
What is globalisation the result of? (5)
Growth of communication systems
Growth of global media
Creation of global markets
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe
Expansion of EU
What do many people see globalisation as producing?
Rapid social changes such as increased international migration
Trend in rate of immigration
It has been speeding up
What did the percentage of international migration increase by between 2000 and 2013 according to the United Nations?
33% to reach 3.2% of world’s population
4 types of migrant
Permanent settlers
Temporary workers
Spouses
Forced migrants
What is increasing diversity of migrant types (with a fact included)?
Globalisation. UK in 2014 there were more Chinese-born postgraduate students than UK-born
Where did immigration to the UK come from before 1990s?
A narrow range of former British colonies
Since the 1990s, what has globalisation led to according to Vertovec? How? (Diversity)
Led to ‘super diversity’ as migrants now come from much wider range of countries and have different cultures, religions and societies in each ethnic group
What three types of migrant did Cohen come up with?
Citizens
Denizens
Helots
What are citizens according to Cohen?
Migrants with full citizenship rights that the government has constantly made harder to acquire since 1970s
What are denizens according to Cohen?
Privileged foreign national migrants welcomed by the state
What are helots according to Cohen?
Most exploited migrant group who are treated like slaves in unskilled, poorly paid jobs
What gender are over half of all global migrants?
Female
Globalisation of the gender division of labour
Female migrants find themselves fitted into patriarchal stereotypes about women’s roles as carers and providers of sexual services
Who is care, domestic and sex work increasingly done by in Western countries according to Ehrenreich and Hochchild?
Female immigrants from poorer countries
Care, domestic and sex work in Western countries is increasingly done by women from poorer countries. What does this result in according to Ehrenreich and Hochchild?
Expansion of service occupations resulting in increasing demand for female labour
Western women in labour force less willing to perform domestic labour
Western men remaining unwilling to perform domestic labour
Failure of state to produce adequate childcare
What percentage of adult care nurses in UK are migrants. What gender?
40%. Mostly female
What do migrant women enter western countries as which reflects gendered and racialised stereotypes?
‘Mail order’ brides
What type of illegal workers do some migrant women enter the UK as?
Illegally trafficked sex workers
Hybrid identities
Identities consisting of two or more difference sources
How may some people react to migrants with hybrid identities?
They may challenge their identity claims or accuse them of not ‘fitting in’
What has globalisation created according to Eriksen?
More diverse migrant patterns
With modern technology making it possible to sustain global ties without having to travel, what identities to some migrants adopt?
Transnational identities
What are migrants less likely to see themselves as due to globalisation?
As belonging completely to one culture or country