GEG 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Urban Ecology
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Labour migrations, people looking for work in mainly factory jobs. One major trend is people from europe going to new continental. The second trend intercontinental migration in europe and decolonization. Decolonization of africa and asia, so europeans are moving back to europe. Mining in south africa, oil based industry in south. Created occupational ghettoes as well as spatial concentrated of culturally distinct, deprived and socially marginalized people. The repercussions of these are experienced today. Social, cultural and racial/ethnic in the uk, france and the netherlands. Often by the children of migrant labourers who were born in europe. Many people leaving asia towards saudi arabia and north america. Many people going to north america and australia. Political and social reasons, looking for a better quality of life. We are in the age of migration . Migration is an important ingredient in the processes of globalization. Migrations is also a symptom of relations of dependence between different regions at different times.
