Theorists Flashcards
What did Koser (2007) say?
- Migration is a business, migrants can have leverage
- ‘Migration industry’ = social networks that perpetuate migration
What did De Haas (2008) about irregular migration from Africa
-Irregular migration has risen cuz Europe has closed legal routes
What did Blanc (1992) say on transnational networks
- A social process whereby migrants operate in social fields that transgress geographic, political and cultural borders
- Ties can be media based
- Related to globalisation
- Home and host countries are in one social field
- Established migrants more likely to engage in such ties
- Immigrant transnational ties qualitatively different from those engaged in by 19th/20th century migrants
What did Bourdieu (1996) say about
migrant networks
-Network connections > social contacts, information, authority, mutual obligations and expectations, norms of reciprocity and solidarity = social capital
What is Murray’s (1992) new right perspective on this?
migration should be capped as it undermines labour and causes issues for countries
What did Phillips (2005) say on UK migration?
How do we tackle this?
‘sleep-walking into segregation’
Need integration and community cohesion
What did Madood (2011) say, does this related to Khan 2005?
- Family migration peaked in 2005 and steadily decreased
- More people in 2003/2009 living than working, but probs cuz of family migration
What did Khan (2005) suggest?
Highlighted family and irregular migration rise since the 1970’s
Over half of economic migrants left UK 5 years after entry
-Huge media shift in construction of migrants
What did Ali (2013) suggest?
- Britain accepts lower skilled migrants as cheap labour rather than Canada
- Britain is closer to home countries of LEDC’s
Levitt (2007) argued that?
Migration is not a one-way process
Transnational migrants are embedded in multiple sites
Nation state divisions not longer apply
What did Robertson’s (1993) ‘relativisation of identity’ come from
-transnational migrant identity
What did Bass (2007) say about french migration?
French on the inside, african on the outside
May (2008)?
Distinction in migration in london
What did Parutis (2011) argue about economic migrants?
Also can be referred to as middling transnationals from Eastern Europe
What did Ali say about 2 types of racism in Europe?
Old type - skin colour
New type - cultural racism (islamophobia)