Theorists Flashcards

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What did Koser (2007) say?

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  • Migration is a business, migrants can have leverage

- ‘Migration industry’ = social networks that perpetuate migration

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What did De Haas (2008) about irregular migration from Africa

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-Irregular migration has risen cuz Europe has closed legal routes

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What did Blanc (1992) say on transnational networks

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  • 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
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What did Bourdieu (1996) say about

migrant networks

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-Network connections > social contacts, information, authority, mutual obligations and expectations, norms of reciprocity and solidarity = social capital

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What is Murray’s (1992) new right perspective on this?

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migration should be capped as it undermines labour and causes issues for countries

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What did Phillips (2005) say on UK migration?

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How do we tackle this?

‘sleep-walking into segregation’

Need integration and community cohesion

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What did Madood (2011) say, does this related to Khan 2005?

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  • Family migration peaked in 2005 and steadily decreased

- More people in 2003/2009 living than working, but probs cuz of family migration

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What did Khan (2005) suggest?

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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

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What did Ali (2013) suggest?

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  • Britain accepts lower skilled migrants as cheap labour rather than Canada
  • Britain is closer to home countries of LEDC’s
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Levitt (2007) argued that?

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Migration is not a one-way process

Transnational migrants are embedded in multiple sites

Nation state divisions not longer apply

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What did Robertson’s (1993) ‘relativisation of identity’ come from

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-transnational migrant identity

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What did Bass (2007) say about french migration?

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French on the inside, african on the outside

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May (2008)?

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Distinction in migration in london

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What did Parutis (2011) argue about economic migrants?

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Also can be referred to as middling transnationals from Eastern Europe

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What did Ali say about 2 types of racism in Europe?

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Old type - skin colour

New type - cultural racism (islamophobia)

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What did Charles Murray (1992) say about migration?

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migration should be capped as it undermines labour and causes issues for countries

Causes social divisions in Western countries

17
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Hussain (2005) argued that?

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South Asian female diaspora in UK create dual ethnicity

18
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What did May (2006) say on migrants living in London?

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There is a new migrant division of labour based on skill levels

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What did Massey (1996) say on transnationalism?

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  • Migrants have distinct attitudes towards mobility and ties to countries, this isn’t applicable to everyone
  • It’s Eurocentric
20
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What did Ali (2013) say about racism in Europe

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2 types of racism in Europe:

Old type - based on skin colour, post-colonial stuff

New type - based on culture, namely islamic prejudice

21
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What did Bass (2014) say about African migrants in France?

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African on the outside, French on the inside

22
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What was Ravenstein’s (1885) understanding of migration?

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People move from areas of high density to low density

23
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Who developed world systems theory?

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Amin (1974)

24
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Name everyone that you can relate to Transnationalism

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Massey (1996) - criticism

Khan (2005) - 5 year tings

Parutis (2011) - Eastern European (middling transnationals, econ migs)

Blanc (1992) - General theories

Harvey (1989) - space/time comp

Robertson (1993) - transnational identity

Levitt (1990) - not one way, embedded

Giddens (1990) disembedding

25
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What did Parutis (2011) argue about economic migrants?

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Middling transnationals

Eastern Europe to UK

26
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Immigration act date?

% of British population are Indian diaspora?

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1971

2.3%