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foreign policy
- actions, projects or strategies taken by states to advance their interests in another part of the world
- produces direct migration
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why are there so many Filipino migrant workers?
- 1) colonialism helped create institutional precrusors of emigration
- 2) Philippine State acts as a labour broker
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neocolonialism
exerting influence over another country by nonviolent means (economic, political and cultural pressures)
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causes of migration
- labour recruitment
- military intervention
- foreign direct investment
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labour-brokering state
- 1) recruit, train, certify workers for a range of jobs
- 2) opens up new markets
- 3) labour diplomacy
- 4) regulate private labour seekers
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essentialism
the belief that there are essential and biological-rooted difference between groups
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Guatemala Civil War (1960-1966)
us backed couped, followed by US military training
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Salvadoran Civial War (1980-92)
Us government aid to help government fight FMLN
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Contra War in Nicaragua (1979-90)
US military backed "contras" or rightwing groups to fight left-wing Sandinista government
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Foreign Direct Investment
physical capital owned/built by foreign investors
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how does foreign policy help us understand migration?
- social/political and economic structures link, not seperate
- migration a relaiton between nations: transnaitonal paradigm
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