AS AM 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Wage Theft, Wage Labour
28 Feb 2018
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Immigration status and its relationship to basic rights and opportunities. Living constantly in the shadow of the law, falling deeper into illegality. The relative ease with which money and wealthy people traverse the world. For the wealthy and educated, there is already a system of open borders. The "optional" transnational family, especially among asian professionals. "parachute children" children enrolled in suburban schools in the u. s. Affluent mom and dad, send kid off in a plane to the us. Affluent children from asia at americna and european universities. # of very affluent ppl has been striking at these institutions. Daewon foreign language high school in south korea. Now you cannot tell the difference between a foreign student on a visa, than a student that grew up in america. By 2005, over 100k korean students were studying in the us every year. Ethinc economices that link privileged and less privileged immigrants together. Skilled, professional families and their access to lowe-paid co-ethnics.
