Demography - What are the trends of International Migration?

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What is Acceleration?
This is when the rate of migration speeds up.
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State an example of a trend when acceleration has occured?
UN in 2013 - Migrating increased by 33% to reach 232 Million
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What does Vertovec study?
Super Diversity
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What is Super Diversity?
This is when Migrants come from a wider range of countries
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Cohen suggests that there are 3 types of migrants... What are Citizens?
Those who have full rights, such as voting and access to benefits
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What are Denizens?
These are privileged foreign nationals welcomed by the state - EG billionaires and celebs
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What are Helots?
The are 'Slaves' Most exploited group and can often be trafficed
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Name 2 reasons why Migration can often affect feminsm?
Almost half of global migrants are female. And female migrants often fit into a stereotype that they become carers or provide sexual services
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What 2 Stereotypes do women fit into when migrating?
Carers or Working in Sexual Services
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What do Enreich and Hochschild Find?
Care work and sex work in Western Countires is done by women from poorer countures
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3 reasons why women from poor countries provide care and sex work
1 - Expansion of service occupations. 2 - Western women have joined the workforce and leave those from poor countires o do the work. Western men remain unwilling to perform domestic labour and leave it for others
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What polices have states introduced to control immigration?
Assimilation and Mutilcultralism
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What is Assimilation?
This is aimed at migrants to adapt to that countries values, languages and customs to make them 'us'
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What is Mulitcultrualism?
This when the state accepts that migrants may want to separate their cultural identities
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What does Castells say about assimilation policlies?
'counter productive' - because they mark out that minority groups are 'culturally backwards'
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How does this lead to a divided working class?
Assimilation may lead to workers blaming migrants for 'taking their jobs' and that others become unemployed
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