Mediaspace scheduled maintenance: Aug 25, 2026 07:00 - 12:00 AM. During this time, videos will be temporarily unavailable. Check status updates.

Lecture

Globalization and Migration: Final Assignment Discussion

In course

HUM-446: Governing global migration I

This course examines key areas of contemporary migration politics in a historical perspective, such as refugee protection, border security, and regional integration. It also trains students in methods of documentary research. ...

Description

This lecture covers the impacts of migration on economies, skill mobility partnerships, social remittances, transnational communities, and concerns about integration. The instructor explains the re-revised final assignment, focusing on synthesizing course material, working with scholarly articles, and laying the groundwork for future papers. Students are guided on how to write a review of a scholarly article and relate it to course content. The lecture also addresses forming project groups for the second semester and finding relevant sources for research.

Official source

Related concepts (24)

Globalization

Globalization, or globalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide. The term globalization first appeared in the early 20th century (supplanting an earlier French term mondialization), developed its current meaning some time in the second half of the 20th century, and came into popular use in the 1990s to describe the unprecedented international connectivity of the post-Cold War world.

Anti-globalization movement

The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalization movement, is a social movement critical of economic globalization. The movement is also commonly referred to as the global justice movement, alter-globalization movement, anti-globalist movement, anti-corporate globalization movement, or movement against neoliberal globalization. There are many definitions of anti-globalization. Participants base their criticisms on a number of related ideas.

Criticisms of globalization

Criticism of globalization is skepticism of the claimed benefits of globalization. Many of these views are held by the anti-globalization movement. Globalization has created much global and internal unrest in many countries. While the dynamics of capitalism is changing and each country is unique in its political makeup, globalization is a set-in-stone "program" that is difficult to implement without political unrest. Globalization can be partly responsible for the current global economic crisis.

Human migration

Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region). The movement often occurs over long distances and from one country to another (external migration), but internal migration (within a single country) is also possible; indeed, this is the dominant form of human migration globally. Migration is often associated with better human capital at both individual and household level, and with better access to migration networks, facilitating a possible second move.

Democratic globalization

Democratic globalization is a social movement towards an institutional system of global democracy. One of its proponents is the British political thinker David Held. In the last decade, Held published a dozen books regarding the spread of democracy from territorially defined nation states to a system of global governance that encapsulates the entire world. For some, democratic mundialisation (from the French term mondialisation) is a variant of democratic globalisation stressing the need for the direct election of world leaders and members of global institutions by citizens worldwide; for others, it is just another name for democratic globalisation.

Related lectures (31)

Urbanization in China

Explores China's urbanization process, migration trends, population growth, and global influences.

Urbanization Dimensions and Reasons

Delves into urbanization dimensions, population growth trends, reasons for urbanization, and shrinking cities.

Modern Guest-worker Programs

Explores the evolution of guest-worker programs and the rise of temporary migration globally.

Global Arctic: Conclusion

Delves into the Arctic's integration into the global civilization and its role as a 'laboratory of and for the Anthropocene'.

The Globalization of Chinese Companies: Challenges and Strategies