Potential of immigration to reproduce patriarchal forms of exploitations Immigration has the potential to reproduce the patriarchal forms of exploitation because in most of the immigrants who have started their own small businesses use their women not only as a …
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Immigration and Female Emancipation As presented by the sources in this module, immigration is partially a form of emancipation for the immigrant women in the sense that they earn more than their male counterparts and are thus able to contribute …
Comparison between European and United States approaches towards border management European and United States approaches towards border management Although rates of incarceration as presented by statistical surveys show that United States has been at the top in incarcerating unauthorized immigrants. …
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Define the term “hyper-criminalization” as explained by Di Girogio. Hyper-criminalization is the process by which an individual’s everyday behaviors and styles become ubiquitously treated as deviant, risky, threatening or criminal, across social contexts. According to Di Girogio, the European immigration …
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Examples of Social Capital First example social capital as described by Tsuda, (1999) was the common ethnicity and cultural values between Nikkeijin (Brazilian-Japanese) Japanese living in Japan. This social capital was valuable for Japanese manufacturing industry because these people were …
Define the term “Nikkeijin” “Nikkeijin” is a term that refers to Japanese and their descendants who emigrated from Japan in the past. Hence “Nikkeijins” can be defined as ethnic Japanese communities abroad i.e. they do not include Japanese who live …
Define the term “Dekasegi” Dekasegi means “away from home” or “temporary migrant worker”. This is a term which has been used to refer to unskilled people who migrated from Brazil to Japan to escape economic instability in Brazil and take …
Find an example from the Tsuda reading that illustrates the theory of segmented labor market and transnational social networks. Example of Segmented Labor Market Theory As explained by Tsuda, (1999, page 5), the acute shortage of unskilled labor in Japan …
Transnational Ties and Immigration When the immigrants keep connected to their home country (sending country) through difference means and ways, like sending money back home to help family, making investments in home country businesses for returning purposes etc, it is …
Definitions related to Human Migration Neoclassical Economics Theory This theory states that countries with low labor supply relative to capital have high wage equilibrium while countries with high labor supply in relation to available capital have low wage equilibrium. This …
