GWST 3510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Loan Shark, Collegehumor, Economic Migrant
23 Apr 2017
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The postcolonial world may be interpreted in terms of global apartheid in which low-wage jobs and low standards of living are assigned to people outside north america, europe, and. Australasia thus, the colour (sic) barrier, abolished in north america by colonial reserve migration, remerged as globalized racialized. There is this growing divide and inequality on a global scale, and the response to that is global migration. People are disadvantaged by structural adjustment and trade policies. There are other forces contributing to mass migration: infrastructure projects. Population growth has expelled people from their lives. There is a broad shift from agricultural production to large food production, thus pushing people off the land. Growth of manufacturing and displacement of people into cities. Many of the global south are affected by the environmental crises and global warming. People migrating in order to avoid persecution and human rights violations and to escape war. People are displaced by conflict, civil war, and authoritarian regimes.
