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Global Cities: Diversity and Migration Issues

Global cities have become cosmopolitan centers attracting people, culture and products from around the world. They transitioned from industrial centers to major financial hubs and destinations. Cities are key parts of global networks in production, finance and telecommunications, serving as building blocks of globalization. However, life in global cities also faces challenges like high costs of living, long work hours, traffic, and potential social isolation. Global cities drive globalization by concentrating industries and firms in close proximity to facilitate just-in-time production and services across borders.

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Global Cities: Diversity and Migration Issues

Global cities have become cosmopolitan centers attracting people, culture and products from around the world. They transitioned from industrial centers to major financial hubs and destinations. Cities are key parts of global networks in production, finance and telecommunications, serving as building blocks of globalization. However, life in global cities also faces challenges like high costs of living, long work hours, traffic, and potential social isolation. Global cities drive globalization by concentrating industries and firms in close proximity to facilitate just-in-time production and services across borders.

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LESSON 10

GLOBAL POPULATION AND MOBILITY: THE GLOBAL CITY

READING COMPREHENSION
The Global City

“Cultural diversity is detected on the surface as “cosmopolitan feel”. The global city’s
“natives” encounter and engage daily with a mixture of immigrants and visitor. The result is
cosmopolitan work culture, global networking and “glocal” transnational community relations”

- Val Colic-Peisker
Cosmopolitanism is a phenomenon mostly associated with the global city. Large diverse
cities are attracting people, material and cultural products from all over the world. It usually
evokes pleasant images of travel, exploration and “worldly” pursuit by the citizens of the
world.

A consumerist world of malls and supermarkets, of theme parks and leisure centers offering,
a cross-cultural variety of food fashion, entertainment and various consumables and
artefacts’.

Example of Global Cities which transition as former industrial and manufacturing


centers.

1. Singapore
2. Shanghai
“Global Cities transitioned from being colonial entrepots to become major financial hubs and
destinations centers. The nodal points of global city network have formed themselves in
place where networks already existe.” –Gregory Bracken

Cities were the key within the global networks of production, finance, and
telecommunications. Cities are seen as building blocks of [Link] Impact to
its Cosmopolitan Population

1. Surging prices of real estate/ falling housing affordability


2. Residential hyper mobility
3. Long working hours
4. Competitive and precarious labour market
5. Traffic congestions / long commuting hours
6. Urban anonymity/ relative social isolation
7. Crime incidence
Global Cities as Engines of Globalization

1. Global cities provide spaces for industries that produce commodities and firms that
provide services such as accounting, banking, information, processing, etc.
2. Global cities offer convenience through proximity and just-in-time production of
products and services.
Categories of Immigrants

1. VAGABONDS
• Forced to move in the hope that their circumstances will improve.
• Refugees, Asylum seekers, OFW’s
REFUGEES - Forced to flee their home countries due to safety concerns.

ASYLUM SEEKERS - Are refugees who seek to remain in the country to which they flee.

OFW’s - They are forced to go abroad for better opportunities.

2. TOURISTS
• On the move because they want to be and they can afford it.
PUSH FACTORS PULL FACTORS
(What pushes people to move to (What encourages people to go to that
other countries?) specific country?)
• Lack of opportunities in home • Works available
countries • Favorable immigration policy
• Political persecution • Labor shortage
• Economic depression • Similarity of culture and language
• War
• Famine

• Labor Migration – mainly involves the flow of less-skilled and unskilled workers, as
well as illegal immigrants who live on the margins of the host society.
Restrictions or Barriers. Countries seek to control the migration because of the following:

• Loss parts of the workforce


• Can cause conflict with locals residents
• Concerns with terrorism

ANSWER THE ACTIVITY IN GOOGLE FORMS. THE LINK IS POSTED IN THE LGOOGLE
CLASSROOM.

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