GGR100H1 Lecture Notes - Transnationalism, Early Human Migrations, Family Reunion
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Questions: when and why did people start moving around the world, what have been the main patterns and factors of migration, how does migration relate to the geography of globalization, early migrations. Features and factors in early human migrations: over long periods, small numbers, population growth, the search for resources, technological superiority, territorial expansion, conquest, invasion and succession, modern migration: factors in decision to migrate. Social: population pressure, class and community conflict, lack of social mobility. Environmental: resource depletion, natural disasters, disease: pull factors: Social: social mobility, modern lifestyle, networks, family survival strategy, remittances, family reunion. Aging, low population growth regions attract people from young, high growth regions: types of migration, short-distance: mainly rural to urban, long distance: inter-regional and international. But also different contexts: voluntary people choosing to migrate, forced: slavery, refugees, temporary: guest or migrant workers rachel ginsburg s talk about migrant farm workers in ontario is a good example of this.
