ANTB20H3 Lecture 9: lec9.docx
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Increased movement tied with globalization in the past, researchers have tended to take territorial units for granted in their studies i. e. assuming that societies take on a territorial form: more interested in people arriving one flow. Push and poor factor i. e. filipinos migrating to canada to become a nurse. Attempt to fix and stabilize a place, a country or a region is itself a product of global migration. Also includes the idea or imagination of you could leave for a better life and you potentially leaving again. Migrants continue to imagine links to specific places and territories in their travels. People organize experiences and create meaning in different ways, recreating ideas of home" and away", local" and global". Continuum where you come from and where you are going to: economic transactions/remittances, social and relation involved in one moving to another country, political, cultural connection, emotionally tied, communication, etc.