INTD 497 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Structural Inequality, Neoliberalism

• School: McGill University
• Department: International Development
• Course: INTD 497
• Professor: Kazue Takamura

Document Summary

Contemporary patterns of low-end labour migration: explore the multi-faceted effects of low-end (primary sector, low-skill individuals) forms of labour migration (legal, socio-economic, cultural implications, examine hierarchical relations and systemic inequality embedded in global labour market. Hierarchical relations produce system inequalities: engage with debates and dilemmas surrounding low-end labour migration (human rights, liberal values, state sovereignty, and empowerment). Negative consequence of labour migration: beheading of the seventeen year-old girl who worked as a house maid but was accused of murdering the child in her case of a saudi-arabian citizen. Key phenomena: market-driven rather than labour-driven orientation (neoliberalism): prioritizing business profit over human rights of migrants values?) Unchallenged systemic labour in liberal states (cid:523)contradicting one(cid:495)s liberal. Overdependence on remittances in labour-sending countries (key push.