INGS2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: 2022 Winter Olympics, Symbolic Capital, Capital Accumulation
26 Jul 2018
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Translations and border crossings i : mapping the world. Sanderson, matthew r. , ben derudder, michael timberlake and frank witlox. An international, cross-city analysis of global centrality and immigration. " international journal of comparative sociology 56(3-4): 173 . Recommended: skilled diasporas - world bank link, 2016 a. t. kearney global cities. Index: think about the idea of representation, and think about what symbols or ideas are associated with your country/city/region of origin. Key sites for corporate control of the world economy. World cities are shaped by capital and labor flows. A concentration of transnational capital flows in world cities and investments from corporations become the bases for immigration. Labor migration a key element in the formation, geography, composition, and evolution of world cities and the world urban system. Migration is the primary source of physical restructuring by expanding populations in world cities: by the end of the century, the typical world city will have 10 million people or more.
