Migration and Migrants Part 2

Migration and Migrants Part 2

1. Definition

   • Schille: Stimultaneously here and there, a part of a new land and another land. Living with and across borders and making decisions with network of people both local and international.
   • Movement of people to a new area or countryto find work or better living conditions

2. Types of migrant

   • Sungle, male only, families, couples
   • Short term/ long term/ seasonal
   • Temporary/ permenant

3. Social and cultural impacts of migration on migrants

   • Changes in kinship
     • Not sure where they belong
   • Second generation migrants
     • Hybrid identity
     • Probelems with identity
   • Culture freeze
     • Migrant holds onto aspects of culture, home culture moves on- aspect of culture is frozen
   • Keep some traditions/disgard others
     • Afro Carribeans
   • Disjunctre
     • Seperation or disconnection from host and home country
   • Detteritiorialisation
     • Weakening of ties between culture and place
   • Localisation
     • Where to settle, adjusting to local way of life
   • Political, social, cultural and economic dependency

4. Conseuquences

   • Economic
     • Remmitance economies
       • Money sent back home from migrants
         • Migrants return: lose money source and dependency doubles
   • Polticial
     • Home country
       • losing skilled and traditional labour
       • gendered labour is strained
       • over dependent on remmitance economiy
       • May not have a re-integration programme
     • Host country
       • distrubution of power to migrants
       • strain on resources
       • ethnic issues
     • Migrant
       • Bangladeshi women move to UK--> women exposed to rights

5. Gender issues

   • Exposure to new way of life
     • Bangladeshi women rights
   • Men left to carry out women roles
     • Lose masculinity
   • Strucutre and inequality from gender view