G lobal Population
UNIT 4
and Mobility
Unit 4: Global Population and Mobility
INTRODUCTION
The idea of “global
city” has a place in understanding contemporary spatial patterns of globalization; the ways it
impacts on local life is nowhere more visible than in the global city. The global city therefore
is the main physical and geographic playground of the globalizing forces; population
concentration and mixing, the global flows of people, capital and ideas woven into the daily
lived experiences of its residents.
Therefore, global city can be a vision or scary. It attracts migrants and visitors but it does not
accept all newcomers with the same welcome and it does not treat all its residents with the
same benevolence. Scampering business people and highly paid professionals maybe living a
diverse dream at least in short episode while mostly hidden from sight in the global city are
its marginal dwellers; sweat shop workers, poorly paid labor in the grey economy, asylum
seekers, undocumented immigrants, women trafficked for sex work, drug dealers and addicts
and the homeless.
Global city are hubs of innovation, creativity and productivity and the creators of new trends
and fashions but also concentrations of demi-monde and social ills of all kinds.
This chapter focuses on the issues of mobility, diversity and [Link] discusses the
diversity of intercultural contact and demographic variety.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of this unit, you are expected to:
1. analyze the effects of living in a global city;
2. discuss the importance of demography in re lation to glob alization;
and ,
3. identify the cause and effect of global migration .
ACTIVATING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Telecommunications making distance seem to disappear. In what ways do you participate in
this process?.
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a) Do you have a member of your family who is working/ living outside the country?
b) How do you communicate with each other? Video call?
c) How many times do you communicate? Daily? Weekly? Monthly?
d) What was the feeling when you talk with each other?
Topic 1: Global City
Learning Objectives :
At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:
define Global City;
identify the advantages and disadvantages of living in a global city;
enumerate reasons why people prefers to live in a global city/or in a
countryside and ,
determine the role of global city i n the world economy.
WHAT IS “GLOBAL CITY”? PRESE
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It is barely surprising that the idea of “global city” emerged in the social science. Literature in
the 1980‟s, shortly after the concept of globalization captured the social scientific
imagination, becoming one of its powerful notional gravitational pulls. However, the idea of
global city was hardly new at the time, and as a phenomenon Global cities, either as centers
of imperial powers or free cities at the crossroads o International merchant routes, existed
since ancient times.
What therefore is the “global city” a global city is characterized by its strength in shaping,
economic, social and cultural links to the rest of the world including its ability to influence
the flow of resources, capital, innovations and knowledge. The effects of global city and
reasons why we want to live in a global city are:
The world top most influential cities: London, New York, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo,
Hongkong, Dubai, Beijing. A global city is a city that has the power to affect global issues
and change the global outlook. It can be done through varied set of systems from politics to
military and economic controlling and adapting the route the global economy takes. A world
city is a city that is a major centre for finace, trade, business, politics, culture, science
Information gathering and mass media. It is one that serves the whole world and can be
considered and important multinational city. The safest cities around the world are; Toronto,
Canada, Melbourne, Australia, Amsterdam, Sydney, Stockholm, Sweden, Hongkong, Zurich,
Switzerland; Frankfurt, Germany. A global city is also called world city, alpha city or world
center. The main characteristics of a global city are economic power. It is therefore correct
that economic power determines which among the cities are considered global city. New
York may have the largest stock market and Shanghai may have the smallest stock market but
plays a vital role in the global economic chain since China became the manufacturing center
of the world. Economic opportunities in a global city make it very attractive to people across
the world. Filipino nurses, engineers, IT programmer, etc. prefers to work in other countries
due to better pay, better benefits and better work environment.
There are measurements of economic competitiveness of a city, like market size, purchasing
power of citizen, size of the middle class and a potential for growth for that particular City.
Global cities are centers of higher learning and culture. Many people wanted to visit a city for
a reason, like if you want to go to Boston, you want to visit the world top university, Harvard
University, Australia for its leading English language universities, Los Angeles for Center of
the American film industry, Singapore, it houses some of the region‟s top television stations
and news organizations, art galleries and cinemas. Today, global cities become culturally
diverse, conjure up images of a fast-paced lifestyles, they can be sites of great inequality,
poverty and violence, global cities can create winners and losers. But in most global cities,
globalization creates high income jobs that are concentrated in global cities. A large global
city may be a paradise to many people but can also be a hell to some.
APPLICATION Search on the criteria and characteristics of a certain place to
become a city and report in class.
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Download the top ten great/known cities of the world and know the history that made them
great or known.
REFERENCES
Saskia Sassen: „The Global City: A New Frontier
Global City: Encyclopedia of Urban Studies
The Contemporary World by Lisandro E. Claudio and Patricio N. Abinales
The Contemporary World by Prince Kennex Reguyal Aldama
Topic 2: Global Demography
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:
• discuss the theory of demographic transition as it affects global population;
• identify the effects of overpopulation and aging population and
• make a comparison of population base on factors such as age, race, sex, etc.
among countries in Asia through a graphical presentation.
PRESENTATION OF CONTENT
Differences in family determine economic and social policies that countries dexterity
regarding their respective population. Having a child is a manifestation of a complete family,
but how many children should you bear?
Having a child or no child is motivated by economics. Will the child be an asset or a liability
to the family, community or to the nation?
In the rural areas, there are families who have more children because their mentality is that
their children are their wealth there will be more to work in the fields and there might be one
of them who will succeed and change their economic life.
In the cities, they have less children because they have to be sure of the education of their
children and there is a high standard of living in the cities therefore they consider how far
their income can go.
”Population changes over time.” The growth or decline of a population can have an effect on
the quality of life for people within that population. Demography is the statistical study of
population based on factors such as age, race and sex. Governments, corporations and non-
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government organization use demographics to learn more about a population‟s characteristics
for many purposes including policy development and economic market research.
Substantial definitions of demography, types of demographics, trends and patterns will be
discussed. Different views and data will be presented. The students will be expected to report
their findings on global demography. Why is it important to study global demography?
The study of demography is important as it allows us to study the nature in which our
population changes over time, and this is important as it allows us to study how changes to
the population such as aging population phenomenon can lead to a decrease in GDP and also
increase in mechanization of jobs and production in developed countries.
In Malthusian theory of population claims that in poor countries,” population grows faster
than food supply”.
There are many reasons why this occurrence happens to poor countries. Rapid growth of
population could be due to:
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a. lack or absence of adequate knowledge of the people regarding natural and safe method or
measures on family planning.
b. insufficient fund to finance the cost of information-dissemination.
c. inability of parents to send their children to school for functional education and training.
On the other hand, it should be understood that, large number of population is not at all bad or
disadvantageous. There are countries that experiences shortage in human resources to work
that‟s why they encourage other nationalities to come and work and stay with them.
Recent study will tell us that there are three babies born every minute, demographers predicts
that by the middle of this century, there will be countries that will double if not triple their
population if it is left unchecked. Demographers also predict that the world population can
still be stabilize.
“The FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) warns that in order for countries to mitigate
the impact of population growth, food production must increase to 70%.” They therefore
enjoin governments to keep their markets open and move eventually towards a global trading
system that is fair and competitive and that contributes to a dependable market for food.
Different versions of family life determine the economic and social policies that each country
formulates regarding their population. Development planners can picture urbanization or
industrialization as an indicator of a developing society but they disagree on the role of
population growth. There should be a promotion of global population control to reduce the
growth rate.
By reducing the population, important resources can be utilized for economic progress and
not to be wasted to feeding more mouths. That‟s why government should create policies to
combat population explosion
APPLICATION
Write an essay or a short research paper to discuss the topic: “Has the
Philippines undergone the demographic transition? Why or why not?”
FEEDBACK
Direction: Read the topic; “Theory of Demographic Transition : Three Centuries of
Fundamental change” by Ronald Lee and answer the following questions:
1. What is demographic transition theory of population?
2. What are 5 stages of demographic transition?
3. What countries are in stage 4 of the demographic transition model?
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REFERENCES
The Contemporary World by Lisandro e. Claudio and Patricio N. Abinales
“The Demographic Transition: Three Centuries of Fundamental Change” by
Ronald Lee
“The Unfolding Story of the Second Demographic Transition” by Ron
Lesthaeghe
“Journal of Economic Perspectives”, by Ronal Lee
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Topic3: GlobalMigration
Learning Objectives
:
At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:
identify the cause and effect of Global Migration;
involve yourself in gathering dataand
narrate experience in interviewing a former or a current OFW about
transnationalism and the factors that affects global migration.
PRESENTATION OF
CONTENT
What is Migration?
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Migration is the movement of people from one place to another. It may be within a particular
place or outside a particular place. There are groups of people who move to a particular place
due to the following reasons;
1. Those who move to another country permanently.
2. Those who move to work as contract workers.
3. Those who move illegally.
4. Those who move because they were petitioned.
5. Those who move to seek asylum.
6. Those who were unable to move because they have fear of persecution. Records will show
that there were people who are currently living outside their birth place due to economic
reasons, they seek for a greener pasture.
The influx of migrants has been the problem of receiving countries because they are not sure
if they will be an asset or a liability to the government. Government should have an existing
policy on how they can control the flooding of migrants. There are cases wherein countries
are faced with issues on the entrance of illegal migrants wherein there were attempts to build
walls just so they can control the entrance and exits of people.
For this, government does not have a choice but to generate jobs for those skilled workers
because their presence will give an increase in their gross domestic product. And because of
these, different countries will do the same by sharing resources with each other the only fear
is that if there will be an influx of illegal migrants who does illegal things in receiving
countries.
APPLICATION
1. Direction: Each student is asked to interview a former or current OFW (face -to-face or
online) by asking the following questions:
a. What push you to decide to work as an Overseas Contract Worker?
b. Who among those people is worth spending your precious time with despite distance
together?
c. Whenever you go home, do you feel like you are a stranger to family and friends?
d. Is working abroad an instrument in achieving your goals?
e. Have you ever think of coming home for good? Or a plan of living there for good?
FEEDBACK
Direction: Read the topic “International Migration at the Beginning of the Twenty-First
Century: Global Trends and Issues”. Answer the following questions;
1. What is the most obvious cause of migration?
2. What are possible reasons why people want to migrate? What influences their choice?
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3. With the presence of migrants, will they not steal what is supposed to be for us? Like job
opportunities?
REFERENCES
“International Migration At The Beginning of the Twenty-First Century: Global
Trends And Issues” by Stephen Castles
“ Differentiating Sedimented from Modular Transnationalism: The View from
East Asia”. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal by Filomeno Aguilar
Saskia Sassen: „The Global City: A New Frontier
The Contemporary World by Lisandro e. Claudio and Patricio N. Abinales
The Contemporary World by Prince Kennex Reguyal Aldama
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