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15 Cards in this Set
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Economic Globalization |
The integration and rapid interaction of economies through production, trade, and financial transactions by banks and multinational corporations, with an increased role for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as well as the World Trade Organization. p.151 |
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Cultural Globalization |
the transnational migration of people, information, and consumer culture. p.151 |
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Essay Topic Positive Effects of Globalization on Women |
Positive - ability to earn independent income and spend it on desired purchases; ability to save for marriage or education; ability to help support their families and "repay" their debt to parents; the opportunity to delay marriage and childbearing and to exercise persona choice of a marriage partner; and the opportunity of other women, and to experience more of what life has to offer, such as a "widening of horizons." They allow more affluent women to participate equally in labor force. p.151-152 |
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Essay Topic Negative Effects of Globalization on Women |
Negatives - paid employment benefits depends on women's control over the money she makes, whether her wages are sufficient to escape poverty, whether she is still responsible for the majority of household and care labor, and the work conditions. Many jobs are poorly paid with little job security and offer difficult work conditions. Many jobs are domestic and care labor jobs that replicate traditional gendered roles. they confine migrant women to low-status gendered roles.
p.151-152 |
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Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) |
Government "belt-tightening" measures typically entailing cuts for social services, schools, hospitals, public transportation, and utilities; often requires as a condition of lending p. 153 |
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Free trade/export processing zones |
Industrial zones with incentives (usually a relaxing of labor and environmental laws and tax breaks) to attract foreign investors. p. 155 |
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Maquiladoras |
EPZ factories in Central America that assemble clothing. p.155 |
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Global Supply Chain |
A feature of economic globalization wherein different pieces of production are spread across geographic locations. p.155 |
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Sweatshop |
Businesses that do not provide a living wage, require excessively long work hours and provide poor working conditions with many health and safety hazards. p.156 |
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Debt Bondage |
Migrant recruitment agencies often enable poor women to migrate to become domestic or care laborers, factory workers,or brides but leave them in a position of indenture as they work to pay off the fees Migrant EPZ workers are sometimes trafficked, tricked, or coerced into migration and exploited through this. Women and girls are forced to continue in prostitution through the use of unlawful "debt" purportedly incurred through their transportation or recruitment. p. 158, 161, 167 |
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Feminization of Migration |
Scholars now speak of this because, in many countries, female immigrants outnumber male immigrants. p. 160 |
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Remittances |
Migrant women typically send anywhere from half to nearly all of what they earn home to their families and send a higher proportion of their earnings home than men do. p.161 |
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Mail Order Bride |
Women in poor economic circumstances are marked as brides to American, European, and Asian men seeking traditional marriages and to Asian men who seek wives due to the "bride deficits" caused by migration or son preference. p.163 |
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Sex Tourism |
Sex work connected to tourism. This is another effect of globalization and is made possible by a globalized system of communication and transportation. It arises out of a globalized economy that makes sex work one of the only ways for some women to earn a living wage and is fed by men from industrialized nations who draw on a racialized ideology where foreign females are thought to be more submissive and available than women in their own countries. p. 165 |
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Sex Trafficking |
A form of human trafficking that pulls women and girls into prostitution against their will. p. 166 |
