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9 Cards in this Set
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Structural Adjustment
Economic Globalization Xenophobia |
Economic Globalization allows entities such as the International Monetary Fund to impose structural adjustments on developing nations, which liberalizes trade and allows off shore outsourcing to occur, leading people in the developed world (the West) to discriminate, or be prejudice towards the ethnicities of developing nations
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Financescapes
Remittances Brain Drain |
Brain Drains lead to labor migrants, who will send Remittances back to their country of origin through a virtual transfer of money or financescapes
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Ethnic Cleansing
Asylum Seekers Zero Sum Game |
Ethnic Cleansing will lead to a diaspora, which will result in numerous asylum seekers, and in relation to population the receiving countries will gain population while the country of origin will loose massive amounts of its population from both the cleansing and the dispersal of the population
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Neo-Liberalism
Market Fundamentalism Global Cities |
Global Cities can be seen as the capital of neo-liberalism because the 3 global cities, New York, Tokyo, and London are home to the 3 largest stock exchanges in the world which is purely market based and exemplifies market fundamentalism
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Nation-State
Deterritorialization Cultural Convergence |
As the power of nation state begins to wane, due to globalization itself, deterritorialization takes place, where cultures are not domesticated to their states borders, and when this happens cultures will collide and eventually converge, due to the access of the same external flows
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Globalization
World Trade Organization Double Movement |
Due to globalization, and the Bretton woods system, the world trade organization was created. This organization liberalizes trade and reduces barriers that impede flows. In 1999 there was a double movement against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, where riots broke out due to the inequality resulting from the WTO
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Hybridization
Refugees Genocide |
In WWII the Genocide of the Jewish population lead to millions of Jews seeking refuge in “safe” countries. Overtime, the receiving countries culture, and the Jewish culture resulted in a hybridization of the 2 due to the same external flows
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Mediascapes
Information War Flows |
Julian Assange was at an Information War with the rest of the world. The flow of information on the Internet allowed him to release cables to the world. News coverage of this event was a mediascape that allowed populations not necessarily effected by the information to become aware of the situation
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World Trade Organiztion
Trade Protectionism Fair Trade |
The WTO works against fair trade. Neo-liberal ideologies are valued which results in free trade, but not fair trade. Fair Trade is practiced through trade protectionism, which is the opponent of the WTO, but is what keeps small businesses competitive
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