ANT E105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Favela, Nordstrom, Frans De Waal
Document Summary
Capitalism, economic liberalism, and the free market. Neoliberalism: an economic and political worldview that sees the free market as the main mechanism for ensuring economic growth, with a severely restricted role for government. Commodity chain: the hands an item passes through between producer and consumer. Pushes and pulls: the forces that spur migration from one country of origin and draw immigrants to a particular new destination country. Bridges: family networks, transportation links, government immigration policies, recruitment agencies, and even human smugglers. Barriers: language difference, geographical distance, tightly regulated borders, expenditures for passports, visas, and transportation. Internal migration: the movement of people within their own borders. Labor immigrants: a person who moves in search of a low-skill and low- wage job, often filling an economic niche that native-born workers will not fill. Professional immigrants: a highly trained individual who moves to fill an economic niche in a middle-class profession often marked by shortages in the receiving country.
