1GEOG 4712: Political GeographyLecture 19: Migration + UrbanizationOutline1) Genealogies2) Terminologies3) Cartographies4) Policies5) Theories6) Outcomes7) Conclusions2Geography + Globalization• Definition:– re-scaling of economic processes– re-territorializing of political sovereignties• Diffusion:– Technologies– Policies• Displacement:– de-colonization– structural adjustment• Disagreements:– ʻFlat-earth Societyʼ Priests– Naturalizers + Modernizers• Decision: “Another missed boat?”New Scientist, 2006ʻpopularʼ approaches + explanations3Flat? Level? Stable? Post-Colonial?Portes + Roberts, Table 14Wider theoretical applicationMapping migration: global totals5Mapping migrants: ‘registered’ localsDavis, Planet of Slums6Grant + NijmanThree primary conditions leading to economic globalization1) Driver: ceaseless capital accumulation; increasing capital mobility2) Facilitator: technological innovation (transportation; communication)3) Mediator: government regulation (ʻthe stateʼ)Mumbai: human + historical scales7Manifestations + mutationsBaghdad Blastwalls: Murals + Migrantshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/w orld/gallery/20 08/aug/ 07/iraq?lightbox=18conclusions + predictions…Porta Farm, peri-urban Harare, Zimbabwe (April 2005)…infection + insecurity?1) Regimes of capital accumulation shape cities2) Contexts of migrant ʻregulationʼ require better metrics3) Migration maps descriptive, not explanatory4) Displacement + urbanization ʻgeopoliticalʼ + ʻlocalizedʼ5) Slums and cities increasingly sites of the
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