Gender, Globalization and Immigration

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This paper briefly outlines two questions that frequently come up in gender issues. The first examines how globalization has affected the migratory patterns of women as well as the roles they have assumed in the new economy. The second question looks at some of the maxims informing the contemporary feminist movement and at how they have led to greater female activism.

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"Globalization, immigration, the national state, and gender all are connected in significant ways. There is a high prevalence of women in export manufacturing in countries that are underdeveloped (Sassen 1998, 115). Women have been "recruited" into the new manufacturing and service jobs generated by "export-led manufacturing" in several Asian and Caribbean countries; women also have immigrated in large numbers to highly industrialized countries (chiefly, the United States), particularly into urban locations that have undergone "economic restructuring" as a result of globalizing tendencies and modernization (Sassen 1998, 130). Thus, there is a clear correlation between gender, emigration patterns, and the globalization of the world's labor force. Another aspect of this relationship is the "global cities" that have emerged in the new world. These cities draw low-wage women into their environs from less-industrialized nations."

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