TENSIONS Flashcards

(17 cards)

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explain Londons melting pot?
- give an e.g surrounding ratio/nationality

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  • data from the ONS showed that in 2011 parents of 65% of the babies born in the UK were born outside the UK themselves
  • diversity is part of Lonsons culture with many different nationality, almost every languasge = migrants are an integral part of a places idenity = cultural blend
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what 3 processes helped growing diversity through globalisation?

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  • open borders
  • the freedom to invest in buisnesses or transfer capital
  • FDI
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explain how opening or boarders and freedom to invest in buisnesses grow diveristy?

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  • EU citizens are free to move around the EU as a right
  • free to invest with no barriers = migrants can make money/work whereever
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explian how FDI faciltates growing diversity?

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  • 2015 UK attracted 32 000 jobs form international migrants to work in software and financial services
  • fills skill gaps often do hard jobs
  • less pressure on [penson schemes check]
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whats the definition of diaspora?

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movement/migration of people who have a national/ethnic idenity away from their percieved homeland

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whats a summary deintion of the melting pot?

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model viwes migrants as a crucial part of a nations idenity = proud to have a rich cultrure mix
[e.g BHAM balti triangle and chinatown]

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what has globalisation led to interms of migration and culture?

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  • inc flow of people around the world & increased awareness of cultrue on a global scale such that [diff cultures live in the same location] = melting pot
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what has muticulturalism lead to?
positive and negatives

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  • lead some locations to have a rch multiculturalism soceity = inc awareness, acceptance of cultral mixing
  • however, in some host locations its caused TENSIONS AND CONFLICT e.g anti-immigrant riots in UK summer 2024
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give a summary of the multicutluralism in the UK in relation to the EU give an e.g?

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  • when the UK was a me,ber of the EU it faciliated free movemet and right to work across other members coutnries
  • EU grew more ppl elegible to migrate in the UK in 2021 5million w an EU passport
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what where the impacts of multiculturalism in the UK?

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  • became a mulitcultrual society, members of diasporas
  • inc econ and social pressure, inc in illlegal migration = tension
  • creastes ethical seperattion = in BHAM oNLY 48% of the poplualiton are white citizens
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what does extremism refer to?

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  • strong, intolerant political ir cultruarl beliefs that are reject other groups & may encourage hostility/violance
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what are the main 2 negative consequences of movement of peole?

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  • immigration tensions -trans-boundary resource[water[ conflicts
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explain the impact of immigration?
= inc of social tensions

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  • in the host country citizen may feel that jobs are being taken, pressure on houses and services increases, cultrual changes = resentment and conflict [migranst face harrassment, abuse, violence/exploitation]
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how has improved tech fascilaotaed migration?

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allows you to work remotley - time-space compression
- inc global flows of information and ppl

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explain how trans-bounday resourced maily WATER cause conflicts?

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  • rivers flow between countries, developen in once country affects others downswtream
  • = reduction in resoirces for some countries
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16
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using the mekong river case studty what were the tensions

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  • politcall government aguements between counties especially between Laos vs cambodia/vietnam
  • over laos’s large dam buildinf in 2012
17
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explain the tension in GERMANY?

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  • 2015 germany accpeted 900 000 asylum seekers
  • sudded huge flow lead ot social and political conflict
  • AfD [anti-immigration party] **rose **and became the third larget party in the German governemnet in 2017