SOC 2151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Official Development Assistance, Remittance, Foreign-Exchange Reserves
13 Mar 2017
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3/8/17 (14) international migration and global movement (pt. 2) Stocks of migrants: 232 million migrants in 2015. Migrant workers distributed by industry: the majority of migrants work in other services" and not in agriculture like is commonly believed. The global migration of sports: migration of players is not random, nor solely economically driven, pathways related to language, culture, and connections, germany: eastern europe. Italy and spain: latin america: france: former african colonies, england: western europe. It has a much larger impact than the official development assistance (oda). Even during a financial crisis, money coming from remittances still remains reliable. The hero" discourse: national labour export policy, government"s overseas employment program (1972), oil boom in the middle east, philippine overseas employment administration (poea). The victim" discourse: forced remittance (executive order 857), high costs of remittance, new international proletariat globalized workforce of the world capitalist economy.
