GEN&SEX 50B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Indigenous Peoples Of Mexico, Labour Power, Family Reunification
20 Jun 2018
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Concepts for review
- Travel and tourism are gendered
- Travel and tourism have an international political history
- Travel and tourism are embedded in power
- Travel and tourism are relational- they produce desires, resentments, hositlites, etc between different people
Forced Relocations and Removal
- What factors or forces causes people to migrate?
Slavery and indentured servitude
War
Political violence (exile)
Relocation
i.e. political repression
Seeking to escape poverty
Incentivized by governments
Opportunity (education, safety, employment)
Family reunification
Following relocated family members
Climate change
Vulnerable living places
- Globalization and social hierarchies: who moves and why?
Social dislocation and displacement (Diaspora, exile, war, poverty)
Labor exploitation and human trafficking (i.e. modern forms of slavery)
Economic betterment or incentives from governments
- Globalization (review):
Economic, social, cultural, and political processes and systems of integration (among people, economies,
movements, culture communications and technologies)
Economic globalization: unregulated capitalism creates maximum economic growth and individual
choice
Free trade, deregulation, privatization (corporations and companies can better serve
people than managed by the public) , end of social welfare, immigration restrictions
Political globalization: moves from state-centered politics to transnational governance and
movements
From above: UN, NATO, EU
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Document Summary
Travel and tourism have an international political history. Travel and tourism are relational- they produce desires, resentments, hositlites, etc between different people. Social dislocation and displacement (diaspora, exile, war, poverty) Labor exploitation and human trafficking (i. e. modern forms of slavery) Economic, social, cultural, and political processes and systems of integration (among people, economies, movements, culture communications and technologies) Economic globalization: unregulated capitalism creates maximum economic growth and individual choice. Free trade, deregulation, privatization (corporations and companies can better serve people than managed by the public) , end of social welfare, immigration restrictions. Political globalization: moves from state-centered politics to transnational governance and movements. Secondary work force - last hired, first fired; expendable labor. Men as a class have authority over women. Creates divisions of labor- men as laborers in public, women as consumers and caretakers in family. Exercised through segmented labor market, discriminatory barriers, and separate wage scales.
