Migration Process

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Migration Process

• Lecture 4

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Part 1 World migration patterns

• Post-War migration patterns to Europe
• Post-colonial (1940 -1970)
• Post-cold war 1980s

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Part 1 extended

• Categories of migrants
• Economic migrants
• Refuges
• Asylum seekers
• Temporary migrants
• Permanent migrants
• Family reunions
• South to south migrants
• Migratory chains

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Part 2 The Global economy and migration

• Single economy
• Money roams making profit
• Development and migration

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Part 3 Why do people migrate?

• 1) Dislocation and change to contemporary
  societies
• e.g. Siberia move from rural to urban
  economies
• 2) The Brain Drain i.e.working _at_Microsoft
• 3) Globalisation of culture Pepsi
  Macdonalization
• 4) Cheaper transport
• 5) Migratory Chains

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Part 4 State Policies

• Economic boom gt liberal migration policies gt
  economic recession gt tighten controls gt evidence
  of increase racism
• UK example
• 1948 British Nationality Act (boom)
• 1962 Commonwealth Immigration Act (tight)
• 1960s/1970s BNP support up

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Part 5 Who controls immigration policies and how
work?

• 1) Nation-state to the EU
• 2) Remote controls
• - harsher visa rules Information campaigns
  (Leicester example)
• 3)Deals to control out migration for aid
• 4) Inception of people as they move
• 5) Opening trade barriers to generate internal
  wealth

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Part 6 Cultural Politics of Migration gender
and migration

• Women invisible in lit and policy
• Women migrants to the west
• Domestic workers - professionals
• Students diverse categories
• Sexualisation of the female body
• Migrant women and feminist politics

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Part 6 Diasporic space and consciousness

• Gilroy and diaspora / diasporic space
• Post-colonial diasporas and the UK
• Leicester example
• History relatedness contemporary experiences
  connected