MOD 3

global network

• made up of dynamic and flexible types of connection between individuals, group, or organizations that crisscross the world

characteristics of a global network

a. global networks cross borders and connect to more than one country

b. movement across a boundary is long term

c. global networks are not confined to a particular country

2 types of global networks

a. technical global network

b. interpersonal global network

technical global network

• form of global network that uses technology

interpersonal global network

• form of global network that includes cross-border groups such as migrants, aid, or social workers involved in advocacy work

globalization

• process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations

• process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology

elements of globalization

• privatization

• deregulation

• liberalization

• privatization

• to transfer government-owned corporations and sell them to the control of the private sector

• deregulation

• governments control over the industry for basic commodities like oil supply, water and electricity

• liberalization

• wherein laws regarding restrictive importation of products are modified or totally abolished

3 types of globalization

• economic globalization

• cultural globalization

• political globalization

• economic globalization

• increasing interdependence of world economies as a result of growing scale of cross border trade

• cultural globalization

• phenomenon by which the experience of everyday life, as influenced by the diffusion of commodities and ideas

• political globalization

• increasing trend toward multilateralism, in which the US plays a key roles, toward an emerging “transitional state apparatus”

migration

• movement of a person or a group of persons either across an international border or within a state

types of migration

a. internal migration

b. external migration

c. emigration

d. immigration

a. internal migration

• person or groups moving to a new place within one’s own country

b. external migration

• refers to moving to a new residence in a different country, state, or continent

c. emigration

• refers to groups departing from one country in view of setting to another

• usually tourism or for work, it is temporarily moving to a new place

d. immigration

• where individuals or groups move into another country for settlement

• moving to a different place permanently

theories of migration

a. everett lee’s push-pull theory

b. otis duncan’s “the theory and consequences of mobility farm population”

c. standing guy’s theory of materialism

a. everett lee’s push-pull theory

• considers both area of origin and destination

i. factors associated with area of origin

ii. factors associated with area od destination

iii. intervening obstacles

iv. personal factors

b. otis duncan’s “the theory and consequences of mobility farm population”

• considers the destination more and not the area of origin

i. economic and technical causes

ii. social causes

iii. personal causes

iv. natural causes

v. other causes

c. standing guy’s theory of materialism

• size and level of migration are determined by the relation of production of society, nature of wealth, land ownership system and factors controlling the growth of forces of production in a society

labor migration

• refers to the movement of persons from one state to another or within their own country of residence, for employment