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    WEEK 4

    Learning Outcomes/Objectives:

    a. Analyse the political, economic, cultural, and social factors underlying the global movements of people.
    b. Display first-hand knowledge of the experience of OFW’S.
    c. Define economic globalization.

    Lesson 10: Global Migration

    Discussion

    • The nuances of the movements of people around the world can be seen through the categories of migrants –
    “vagabonds” and “tourists” (Bauman, 1998).

    Vagabonds are on the move “ because they have to be” (Ritzer, 2015,p. 179) they are not fairing well
    in their home countries and are forced to move in the hope that their circumstances will improve.
    Tourists. On the other hand, are on the move because they want to be and because they can afford it.
    Refugees are vagabonds forced to flee their home countries due to safety concerns (Haddad, 2003).
    Asylum seekers are refugees who seek to remain in the country to which flee.

     According to Kritz (2008), those who migrate to find work are involved in migration labor.

    Labor Migration

     It mainly involves the flow of less-skilled and unskilled workers, as well as illegal immigrants
    who live on the margins of the host society (Landler, 2007).

    Migration is traditionally governed either by “push” factors such as political persecution, economic
    depression, war, and famine in the home country or by “pull” factors such as a favorable immigration
    policy, a labor shortage, and a similarity of language and culture in the country of destination (Ritzer,
    2015).
    Global factors, which facilitate easy access to information about the country of destination, also exert a
    significant influence.
    Many countries face issues of illegal migration. The US faces a major influx of illegal immigrants from
    Mexico and other Central American states (Thompson, 2008).
    A fence is being constructed on the US-Mexico border to control this flow of people (Fletcher and
    Weisman, 2006). However, its efficacy is questioned and it is thought that it will only lead illegal
    immigration to adapt dangerous method to gain entry. In addition tighter borders have also had the effect
    of “locking in “ people who might otherwise have left the country (Fears, 2006). Other countries with
    similar concerns abouv illegal immigration include Great Britain, Switzerland , and Greece as well as
    countries.

     According to Malkin (2007), the Philippines is one leaders when I comes to the flow of
    remittances (14.7 billion dollars), next to India (24.5 billion dollars) and China (21.1 billion).
     The term “diaspora” has been increasingly used to describe migrant communities.
     Of particular interest is Paul Gilroy’s (1993) conceptualization of the diaspora as transnational
    process, which involves dialogue to both imagined and real locales.
     Diasporization and globalization are closely interconnected and the expansion of the latter will
    lead to an increase in the former (Dufoix, 2007).
     Today, there exists “virtual diasporas” (Laguerre, 2002) which utilize technology such as the
    internet to maintain the community network.
    CHAPTER 2: The Global Economy

    Lesson 11: Introduction

    The United Nations (UN) tried to address the different problems in the world. Their efforts were guided
    by the eight Millenium Development Goals, which they created in the 1990s.

    Among these eight goals, the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger ranked as the first.
    The other seven goals include:
     achieving universal primary education
     promoting gender equality and women empowerment
     reducing child mortality
     improving maternal health
     combating diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria
     ensuring environmental sustainability, and
     having a global partnership for development
    In the Philippines, if the person makes less than 100,534 pesos a year, he is already in the so called
    “poverty line” or “poverty threshold”.
    Extreme poverty is a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs including
    food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education, and information.

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