SOC218H1 Lecture Notes - Transnationalism, Human Migration
Document Summary
Intro - advancement of technologies- (technologies have upgraded to keep one closer to home since they are able to easier keep in touch with people back home ie skype. ) Globalization - financial capital - the requirement for people to have contact with other people across the world. new york stock exchange effects stocks across the world. Flow around the world quite frequent in a connected way. Thus no longer pick up and leave, theres a lot of economic ties to back home. Human migration - in past (19th century = developing country to developed country) Now migration is both direction (ie north america to asia - return migration) = maintain contact with the world. Process of movement, moving from one to another and back again and back some years then move on then settle for some years and so on. Settlement process - process of movement and then they would settle for.
