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Global Mobility and Social Transformation

This document discusses three main topics related to global migration and mobility: 1) different theoretical approaches to studying migration from various disciplines like sociology, anthropology, and economics, 2) factors that push and pull people to migrate and how migration is governed, and 3) how global mobility leads to social transformations. It outlines economic, quantitative, and push-pull approaches to migration and describes three rationalities that shape governance - neoliberalism, humanitarianism, and security. The document also discusses how global mobility results in hybrid cultures and habits due to increased human movement worldwide.

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Global Mobility and Social Transformation

This document discusses three main topics related to global migration and mobility: 1) different theoretical approaches to studying migration from various disciplines like sociology, anthropology, and economics, 2) factors that push and pull people to migrate and how migration is governed, and 3) how global mobility leads to social transformations. It outlines economic, quantitative, and push-pull approaches to migration and describes three rationalities that shape governance - neoliberalism, humanitarianism, and security. The document also discusses how global mobility results in hybrid cultures and habits due to increased human movement worldwide.

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In this chapter we will discus:

1. different theoretical approaches of migration


2. issue of governing migration
3. social transformations

GLOBAL MIGRATION AND


MOBILITY
 different approaches include :
sociologists,

Anthropologists

 political scientists

 geographers

Demographers

Economists

 historians

international relations and legal scholars.

GLOBAL MIGRATION AND MOBILITY:


THEORETICAL APPROACHES
 Neo-classical economic:  a broad theory that focuses on supply
and demand as the driving forces behind the production,
pricing, and consumption of goods and services.
 Quantitative sociological : objective, deductive, and based on
numeric quantification and generalization of results. 
 Push and pull factors :
• Economic migration - to find work or follow a particular career
path.
• Social migration - for a better quality of life or to be closer to
family or friends.
• Political migration - to escape political persecution or war.
• Environmental - to escape natural disasters such as flooding.

GLOBAL MIGRATION AND MOBILITY:


THEORETICAL APPROACHES
 Push factor : push people away from their home
and include things like war.
 Pull factor: pull people to a new home and include
things like better opportunities.

PUSH AND PULL FACTORS


GOVERNING MOBILITY

 There are 3 broad ‘rationalities’ of governance that shape global regulatory


practices applying to migration and mobility today (Steger, 2014, p.365)

a. Neo-liberalism
b. Humanitarianism
c. Security
  
1. Neo-liberal Governance
 Unrestrained free market global capitalism
 They believed that neoliberalism is the most effective mechanism for generating
growth and prosperity, the prioritization of growth over equity, and the
individualization of responsibility for market success and failure

GLOBAL MIGRATION AND MOBILITY :


GOVERNING MIGRATION
 3 crucial logics of governance
a. market criteria became the explicit basis for making decisions on
immigration in states with official migration programs
- “point systems”
b. While planning for immigration had always intersected with
access to transnational labor markets, it now became tied to the
effort to render migrant labor more ‘flexible’ (Entzinger,
Martiniello and de Wenden, 2004; Overbeek, 2002).
c. migration has become an important dimension of global
development strategies
- “migration-developed nexus”

GLOBAL MIGRATION AND


MOBILITY :GOVERNING MIGRATION
 Feminization of labor migration

2. Humanitarian Governance
 a tradition of thought and practice that begins from the basis of the equal worth of all human beings and
a shared consciousness as ‘humanity
 ‘human rights regime’ is its emphasis on the individual as the bearer of rights
 Humanitarian sentiment and human rights law are at the center of the global legal and institutional
architecture that responds to forced migration
 whether the ‘help’ provided to refugees in the form of humanitarian assistance might exacerbate the
recipient's exposure to trauma and prevent their recovery (Harrell-Bond, 1999)

3. Security Governance
 the process through which migration is increasingly viewed through the prism of sovereign and existential
threat (Weaver et al., 1993)
 . The specter of ‘uncontrolled’ mobilities heightens a sense of vulnerability to ‘dangerous’ outsiders
 governments linked border policing against unwanted migrants to the notion of defense and to the
broader security functions of the state
 Migration management

GLOBAL MIGRATION AND MOBILITY :


GOVERNING MIGRATION
GLOBAL MOBILITY
: SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
Glick Schiller
IN THESE DAYS THERE ARE A WHOLE
LOT OF HYBRIDITY IN TERMS OF
PEOPLE’S CULTURE HABITS, AND OTHER
FACTORS DUE TO GLOBAL MOBILITY.
Thank you.

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