Globalisation And Migration Flashcards
Globalisation
Is the idea that barriers between societies and are disappearing and people are becoming increasingly interconnectedness acoss national boarders
Globalisation is the result of many processes including the growth of communication systems and global media the creation of global markets the fall of dominion Eastern Europe and the expansion of the eu
Acceleration
Globalisation has resulted in acceleration
There has been a speeding up of the rate of migration
According to the United Nations between 2000 and 2013 international migration increase by 33% to reach 232 million or 3.2% of the worlds population
In the sane year almost a million people either entered or left the UK
differentiation
Globalisation has resulted in differentiation
There are many types of migrant these include permanent settlers temporary workers spouses or forced migrants such as refugees and asylum seekers
Migrants cab also be illegal and legal
Before the 1990s immigration to the uk cane from a borrow range of former British colonies and these migrants tended to form a small number of stable geographically concentrated and homogeneous ethic communities
Sinces the 1990s globalisation ha s led to what vertovec 2007 has called super diversity even within a single ethnic group individuals may differ in terms of their legal status, culture or religion and be widely dispersed tgriughout the uk.
Number 1 reason for people to migrate to the UK
To work
To. Claim benefits and free housing
To free health care
To commit crime
University
Feminisation of migration
In the past most migrants were men
However today almost half of all glance.migrants are female
The type of jobs they do tend to fit patriarchal stereotypes such that there is a global gendered division of labour
Ehrenreich and Hochschild 2003
observe the care work,domestics care work and sex work in the uk is increasingly done by women from poor countries
This is a result of 4 things
- The explanation of device occupations has resulted in an increasing demand for female labour
- Western women’s are now in the labour force and are mess likely to perform domestic labour
- Western men remain unwilling to perform domestic labour
- The failure of the state to provide adequate childcare
Consider how eas h of these factors could influence the rude in female migrants to the UK
Shultz
40% of adult care nurses in the UK are migrants and most of these are female
There is also global transfer of women’s emotional labour I.e. migrant Nannie’s who often have to keave their own childcare in their home country to work abroad to provide care and effection for their emolyers children.
Mail order
Brides as migrant women also enter wsterdan countries as. Aik order. This often reflects the gendered and racialized steryiyryoes e.g. Asian women being subservient.
Women also enter th euk illegally through illegal sex trafficking where women are kept in contions amounting to slavery
