Social mobility

Question 1

What are examples of large-scale movements of people?

Answer 1

• British colonial expansion
• Slave trade
• WWII refugees
• Post- WWII labour migration
• Syrian conflict

Question 2

what is Transnationalism

Answer 2

Heightened interconnectivity between people and the receding economic and social significance of boundaries among nation states.

Question 3

what caused transationalism

Answer 3

• Direct result of globalisation and the compression of time and space ( Harvey, 1989)
• Diaspora studies acknowledge that people belong to multiple places
• We don’t have single fixed identities, borders or nations.
• Connections, flows and networks (Massey, 1991)

Question 4

what are Remittances

Answer 4

• A migrant sending money or goods back to their home.
• Usually from a major urban centre of overseas, facilitates the household in rural area.
• Often amount more than foreign direct aid and huge source of investment capital.

Question 5

what is Forced migration

Answer 5

• Forced migration are migrants that feel forced to leave a country, this may be direct or indirect as indirect through fleeing (refugees)
• Refugees are individuals that are outside his or her country or nationality in habitual residents unable or unwilling to return due to fear of prosecution of discrimination.

Question 6

People not included as a refugee.

Answer 6

• Internal displaced (within a country)
• Stateless individuals
• Individuals who have crossed an international border fleeing generalised violence.

Question 7

what are the categories resettlement typically fall into

Answer 7

• Development
• Conflict
• Natural disaster
• Climate change

Question 8

what are the risks after resettlement

Answer 8

• Landlessness
• Joblessness
• Homelessness
• Marginalization
• Food insecurity
• Loss of access to common property resources

Question 9

Crisis narratives: what caused the EU migration crisis?

Answer 9

• Lack of understanding of drivers of migration:
• People aren’t leaving with a clear idea of their (European) destination
• Migration is basically about global inequality and only that will stop the flow
• People travel in ‘mixed flows’ you can’t separate the forced and voluntary
• Haven’t been ale to implement any of the policies they agreed on

Question 10

Was it actually a migration crisis?

Answer 10

mix of blame, threats and historical problems.

Question 11

what is the border spectacle

Answer 11

• Illegality is created: These spectacles try to make the illegality of migration a reality to help fuel anti immigration views.
• However these accompanied by the large-scale, unacknowledged recruitment of illegalised migrants
• Since they are legally vulnerable, they are precarious, and thus easy to control forms of labour.

Question 12

explain migration and gender in relation to feminist geography.

Answer 12

• Feminisation of migrant flows – more women migrating.
• Women tend to migrate to specific roles
• Women left in rural locations when family members migrate can experience positive impacts, e.g. great autonomy or negative impacts e.g. fear of violence, greater share of farm labour.