ATS1309 Study Guide - Final Guide: Neoliberalism, Ecofeminism, Social Sustainability
6 Jun 2018
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3. Migration is becoming more differentiated – combinations of permanent and
temporary migration, refugees, retirees, students etc
4. Migration is increasingly feminized – more migrants are women especially in both
labour flows and refugee flows
Globalisation and mobility
Push and pull factors for ‘elite’ mobility
Ø High employment and education mobility, high incomes, highly skilled
Ø Relative ‘size’ of the planet is declining for this population – interconnected through
massive improvements in telecoms infrastructure and technology
Ø Results in high rates of global mobility, both permanent and temporary
Ø Less privileged, less educated, less control over the nature of migration
Ø Major push factors – war and conflict, famine and poverty, climate change and
environmental catastrophe, food insecurity, urban development
Complex interplay of push and pull factors
Ø Economic transformation
Ø Poverty, war, famine, disease
Ø Slavery
Ø Culture
Ø Technology
Drivers of population change – economic, cultural, technological, social and political
Population, development and environment (11/8)
Population growth and its relation with environment and development
What is ‘the environment’?
Ø Lack of human influence
Ø Animals, plants
Ø Air quality
Ø Built environment
Continuum of human-environment relationship
Ø Untouched nature
o Natural landscape
