DTS201H5- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 14 pages long!)
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Nation, migration, and globalization: point of contention in. Diaspora studies, in theorizing diaspora, edited by jana evans braziel and anita mannur, 1-22. Why the argument is significant: think about what you read, and what you know now. Look at when the article is written: certain ideas from are only relevant to certain times, may be irrelevant to issues now. Individual and his/her support networks: real sense of what individuals are experiencing in host land, distinguish types, economic, political, socio-cultural. Identify necessary conditions for the phenomena: technological advancements, ready availability of air transport, long-distance telephone, etc, enables governments and major corporations to accelerate the process of transnationalism from above. Immigrants provide a desired goods to kin and friends by making them accessible to others at cut-rate prices. Immigrant adaptation: know what to do to fit into the structure of new environment, push back at expectation of assimilation, effective resistance.