ARTSSCI 1C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Filipinos, Racialization, Commodification
8 Dec 2016
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Migration and movement of people are a key feature of globalization. Embodied globalization (james 2014), or human movement, is often more tightly controlled than disembodied forms: ex. In what ways does globalization affect human rights: creates situations in which human rights become less secure, less certain, object -ation of humans, children unaccompanied by adults. Idea of moving humans creates a human rights gap. Social reproduction = labour (often informal) required to support, maintain, care for people: off-loading of undesirable jobs onto other foreign people, labour that was not previously thought of as work . A major mode of entry for female migrants moving from the global south to the global. Reduction of pressure of unemployment for sending countries. Patriarchal norms in sending countries: women a more subject to inequity, may be a way of escaping an abusive marriage. Existing linkages between countries: follow past colonial flows.
