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Topics in Globalization, Migration, and Multiculturalism

Topics in Globalization, Migration, and Multiculturalism. Liz Carbajo Drea Gallaga Feriha Kazmi Mikki Maddox Mercedes Pour-Previti Christelle Sheldon Grogan Ullah Jay Wachtel. The Globalizing World: Computer Mediated Migration and Multiculturalism.

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Topics in Globalization, Migration, and Multiculturalism

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  1. Topics in Globalization, Migration, and Multiculturalism Liz CarbajoDrea GallagaFeriha KazmiMikki MaddoxMercedes Pour-PrevitiChristelle SheldonGrogan UllahJay Wachtel

  2. The Globalizing World: Computer Mediated Migration and Multiculturalism • Geography and Migration in an era of compressed time/ space • Non-physical space & Telemediazation • Multiculturalism- “culture” not necessarily linked to physical geography • The Internet and Multiculturalism • Accessibility and dissemination of ideas and culture • Socialization and community building in the eWorld • “Push” and “Pull” of culture

  3. CONTINUED- The Globalizing World: Computer Mediated Migration and Multiculturalism • Strides towards egalitarianism • Ideas are bottom-up and top down, everyone gains a voice • Access to vast arrays of knowledge and cultural norms • Disenfranchisement from migration and multiculturalism • Access Denied: • Those who do not have modern technologies • Fees

  4. Globalization: Migration One of the measures of globalization is the movement of people. There are many reasons for the movement of people, migration, employment, education, refugees, tourism, and trade. Migration can affect a country’s economy in various ways. • A country may experience losses and gains • Brain Drain • Loss of laborers, gain of laborers, competition for jobs, etc... Migration can, also, affect a society’s culture in different ways.

  5. Globalization: Migration First, there is the conscious embodiment of cultural diffusion: The desire to increase one’s standard of living and enjoy foreign products and ideas Adopt new technology and practices Participate in a “world culture” Consumerism and loss of languages Another aspect is the transformation of culture: The spreading of multiculturalism and better access to cultural diversity Assimilation

  6. Multiculture and identity in the globalized world Mobility of people gives the opportunity (or necessity) to create new identities Construction of race in America runs up against globalizing forces Possible directions for multiculture in America – equalizing, decentralized, populist

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