Imperialist globalization, crisis in agriculture

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Imperialist globalization, crisis in agriculture
migration

• Irene fernandez

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GLOBALIZATION

• COLONIALISM Control over governance and Land.
• DEVT DECADE Control over Production Growth of
  TNCs.
• GLOBAL INTEGRATION OF TRADE, FINANCE AND
  PRODUCTION. Control through TRADE, Financial
  Institutions and New Systems of Production

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NEO LIBERAL FRAMEWORK- The Politics of
Globalization

• Trade Liberalization WTO/ IFIs./ FTAs.
• Deregulation Privatization Private control
  Subcontracting Changing role of the State.
• Opening of Markets Removal of Barriers,-
  Tariffs and Subsidies
• Militarization

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Global Dictator Mechanisms

• Control over Production of Food.
• Removal of Subsidies Support Double
  standards.
• TRIPS, PATENTS AND SEED CONTROL.
• LOSS OF LAND, RESOURCES AND LIVELIHOOD.

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World trade organization

• Who gains?

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Globalization, economic displacement and migration

• Economic displacement of national enterprises due
  to dumping and loss of support
• Economic displacement of traditional sectors of
  peasants, fisherfolk, indigenous communities due
  to speculative development projects, dumping and
  loss of support
• Economic and physical displacement due to
  militarization, conflicts and wars

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BURMA
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IMPACT CONSEQUENCES

• Shrinking Growth- Displacement of national
  enterprises.
• Loss of Jobs and displacement of people
• Labor Flexiblization
• Labor Export and Forced Migration
• Trafficking in Persons
• Loss of Resources- Environmental Threats

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BIG BUSINESS
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• Migration is a Big Business
• which is highly Organized,
• Structured a System to make money.

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TRENDS

• In 2001, 44 moved to the northern countries
  while 40 moved within the region.
• More than 65 of the countries had increased
  restrictions on migration
• Tremendous increase in FEMINIZATION of migration
  especially from Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka.

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STIGMA

• Multilayered process of Devaluation
• Discrimination

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THE TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS- A GROWING GLOBAL CRIME
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OUTSOURCING OF LABOR OR TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
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Bonded Labour - DWs

• State/s have institutionalised bonded labour
• Passports withheld
• Restriction of movement
• Unpaid wages
• No off days
• Recruiting Agents
• Double jobs

Have elements of Trafficking in Modern Day Slavery
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Modern Day Slavery

• Forced Prostitution
• Bonded Labour
• Smuggling and Trafficked for babies
• Foreign Brides

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Impact in Trafficking

• Loss of Self Esteem Confidence (shame)
• Trauma (at times irrecoverable)
• Fear / Anxiety
• Suicidal Tendencies
• STIs
• Pregnancies
• Botched Abortions
• HIV / AIDS
• Pelvic Pains (esp in children)
• Oral / Anal infections
• Forced to use drugs, alcohol, cigarettes

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VIOLATION OF RIGHTS THREAT TO HUMAN
SECURITY
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THE CRACKDOWN
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RELA- The New Enforcers
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WHIPPED
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REMITTANCES

• The New FDI for poverty reduction.
• The Key focus of the UN High Level Dialogue.
• Price Citizens pay for Failed Economies and
  Democracy
• Ensure Debt Payment and Servicing.
• Conflict in Loyalty or Identity

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Systematic labor migration and the creation of a
labor underclass

• Basic conditions of migrant labor as underclass
• Intensification of capitalist exploitation
  through depressed wages and absence of benefits
• Intensification of capitalist exploitation
  through labor intensity/greater flexibilization,
  lack of protection and inhuman working conditions
• Intensification of exploitation through lack of
  social services

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IN GODS IMAGE?

• We are
• UNEQUAL
• STIGMATIZED
• DISCRIMINATED
• CRIMINALIZED

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ROOT CAUSES
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• RECOGNIZE THE LARGER SYSTEM OF GLOBAL
  INEQUALITIES.
• THE NEXUS OF INEQUALITIES OF SYSTEM AND
  INDIVIDUAL MIGRANT
• UNDOCUMENTED WORKER CAME FROM SOMEWHERE AND NOT
  AN ACT OF FREE CHOICE.

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RECLAIM RIGHTS
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Peoples resistance against WTO agrochemical
TNCs for food sovereignty

• Asia-wide Peoples Caravan
• AWARENESS
• STRENGTH
• SOLIDARITY
• EMPOWERMENT
• VISIBILITY