SOC 2151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Porosity, Solidity, Europeanisation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2151
• Professor: ALINE

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When we talk about flows, we talk about the business of movement. E. g disadvantaged - poor, minorities, etc: barriers are created, can change, and do not impact people evenly. Example of barriers: the west ba(cid:374)k wall (cid:862)free palesti(cid:374)e(cid:863, the mexico-united states barrier, bureaucratic and political barriers. Socio-structural barriers (not a good capacity to travel) The world is flat (friedman, 2005): elimination of all barriers (e. g tariffs, quotas, restrictions, regulations, more and more people competing in global markets. Flatness is conducive to all sorts of flows. (people, goods, commodities, ideas). The argument of that (cid:271)ook that e(cid:373)plo(cid:455)s a (cid:448)er(cid:455) spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272) (cid:373)etaphor (cid:862)flat(cid:863) (cid:374)o (cid:271)arriers. One of the things that we tend to assume is that people flow from the global south to the global north. Not true, majority of the people go from global south move to global south areas: every flow follows specific things. Air flight routes: usually you go through toronto, or montreal or ottawa.