GEOG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Transnationalism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG101
• Professor: Brent Doberstein

Document Summary

Lecture 5 - geog 101 | nancy worth. Beyond push and pull factors: push and pull factors critique for quantitative focus, overstating the economic. Overstating the economic: extrapolating migration patterns to migrant beliefs and behavior, need to move beyond counting/demographics. Belonging: a way of connecting migration and identity, through the state - esp nationalists politics that exclude newcomers, citizenship status as a marker of belonging (temporary foreign workers in canada, guest workers in germany. Place matters: translocalism - attachment to family, friends and place (multiple interests between 2 local cities, new framing of global cities as immigrant gateways, dubai, amsterdam. Internal voluntary migration: political and economic transformations, economic opportunity, example of newfoundlanders "working away, national economic strategy ex. Low-paid labourers: high-wage workers, remittances (send money home across international boarder to support families, temporary foreign workers in canada.