Topic 8-Migration & Globalization

Question 1

What is the push/pull phenomenon?

Answer 1

Moving from the countryside to the city. Country side can’t support anymore (push), cities attract people with jobs, education, lifestyle (pull).

Question 2

What is international migration?

Answer 2

Changing countries. Moving from developing to industrialized. People escape from conflict zones.

Question 3

What are economic migrants?

Answer 3

People travelling to another country in order to improve their standards of living.

Question 4

What is a refugee?

Answer 4

Person who escapes country due to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, membership or political opinion.

Question 5

What is remittance?

Answer 5

Money that people make while abroad and send it back home.

Question 6

What is the Inclusive Approach to immigration?

Answer 6

The country/state is very concerned about how immigrants will fit in. Examples are Quebec and France.

Question 7

What is the multicultural approach to immigration?

Answer 7

The country/state is live and let live. As long as immigrants have a job, pay taxes/healthcare, whatever is okay.

Question 8

What is reasonable accommodation?

Answer 8

To change certain rules in order to accommodate people of different origins and faiths (school, work, public areas,etc.)

Question 9

What is the Bouchard-Taylor Commission Conclusion?

Answer 9

Minorities have to adapt their practices and values to the secular nature of institutions. It is unfair to demand immigrants assimilate completely the culture of the majority.

Question 10

What is internal migration?

Answer 10

Moving inside the same country. For jobs or family reasons. Can be also be from construction, natural disasters and war.

Question 11

What is globalization?

Answer 11

The process of intensified global interconnectedness and movement of goods, information and people.

Question 12

What does globalization include?

Answer 12

Economy, politics, culture and the process in which the world is rapidly compressing into a single global community.

Question 13

What are the origins of globalization?

Answer 13

Back in the 16th century during the trading (slaves, sugar, metals) and countries having colonies abroad.

Question 14

When was the point of no return for globalization?

Answer 14

The great expansion of European Empires, after the industrial revolution.

Question 15

What are some direct effects of globalization?

Answer 15

Global common market, easier access to foreign products, brain drains and relocation of power.

Question 16

How did globalization begin to effect psychology?

Answer 16

New identities and categories of consciousness emerged.

Question 17

What are some things that globalization influences?

Answer 17

Trade networks, telecommunications, education abroad, migration, tourism.

Question 18

Globalization spreads evenly. True or False?

Answer 18

False. Some cultures are more affected than others.

Question 19

What is cultural imperialism?

Answer 19

The idea that some cultures dominate others due to the spread of colonialism and capitalism. This domination can lead to destruction of subordinated cultures.

Question 20

Cultural imperialism denies the agency of local cultures and assumes that cultural changes only go one-way. True or False?

Answer 20

True.

Question 21

What is cultural appropriation?

Answer 21

Appropriation or use of elements from an oppressed culture by a dominant culture. Used outside of their cultural context. Original meaning is distorted. Viewed as disrespectful.

Question 22

What are the four models of cultural interaction?

Answer 22

Conflict, homogenization, localization, hybridization.

Question 23

What is the conflict model?

Answer 23

Clash of cultures. The spread of western capitalism and life wats throughout the world has caused the alienation of other cultural systems.

Question 24

What is the homogenization model?

Answer 24

Influence of the U.S. dominating corporate culture. The world is becoming culturally homogenous.

Question 25

What is the localization model?

Answer 25

The transformation of global culture by local cultures into something new. Throws into question the idea that western culture is taking over the entire world and erasing cultural diversity.

Question 26

What is the hybridization model?

Answer 26

When aspects of two or more cultures are blended to create something new.