GG102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Core Countries, Captive Market, Environmental Ethics
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By contrast, countries of the periphery that are going through rapid population growth today have next to no opportunity to "export" their "surplus" population. Many countries maintain closed borders to would- be immigrants, particularly if they are from peripheral countries and have only limited education. Keep in mind that even canada, one of the largest immigration countries in the world, takes only slightly more than 200 000 immigrants every year (see figure. 3. 12), 70% of whom are not independent (i. e. , new) immigrants, but family members of immigrants that are in canada already. This means that the profits of that industrialization flow back to those core countries, rather than stay in the peripheral countries to "trickle down" through the economy. This leaves much of the local population excluded from sharing in the wealth generated by the industrialization process: the industrialization process that propelled many european countries into the core during the.
