GGR320H1 Lecture Notes - Free Trade, Human Security, Operation Gatekeeper
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Migration affects birth/death rates along with economy hard to study migration: different scales (provinces, nations?, how long must one spend in different areas to migrate), migrants could be temporary foreign workers (ex. Sawp: very political, about identity which can become controversial and, most migration" data isn"t actually data invisible foreigners? defined by: 6 months and cross a nation-state boundary widely debated (not empirically based) Mahdavl: humans are a commodity as clothing or other goods are bought and sold globalization has dissolved nation-state borders thus there has been a growth of crime syndicates. European union: people are allowed to cross border without detection: eastern europe: post-berlin wall fall of soviet empire 1989: creation of markets in organized crime realm. Truckstop: women and children are enslaved and trafficked even in toronto truckstop : makes truckers the actors in spotting and denying human trafficking. Increased ease of travel of borders has not correlated with rise of rights for undocumented workers.