Edexcel Geography A Level Globalisation

1. Varying attitudes towards
migration and cultural mixing

2. Varying attitudes towards
migration and cultural mixing
• Watch this (from 20.04) to see what people think of
the new arrivals in Greece from Syria.

3. Varying attitudes towards
migration and cultural mixing
• Key words:
• Post-accession migration: The flow of economic
migrants after a country has joined the UE
• Diaspora: The dispersion or spread of a group of people
from their original homeland.

4. Porous Borders: Fairy tale borders….
• The yellow bit labelled "H1"
(for Hartog) towards the
bottom is mostly the Belgian
town.
• But notice those little white
bits inside the yellow —
labelled "N1, N2, N3" —
those are little patches of the
Dutch town (N for Nassau).
The two towns are not
geographically separate.

5. ‘Borderless World’
Pros of porous borders Cons of porous borders
People communicate in ‘English’ around the
world
Migration levels create disquiet among
communities and nations
Labour markets transcend national borders
Cultural identity and ideas spread more easily –
creating multi-cultural societies
Can you
exemplify?
A*

6. Political tension from globalisation:
• Globalisation has encouraged migration and now in
the UK roughly 13% of the population were born
outside the UK. Between 2001 and 2011, the
number of foreign born citizens rose by 3m.
• White British people are now in a minority in
London.
• As a result more and more extreme political parties
have become more and more popular as people
have started to say no to migration and ultimately
globalisation.

7. Political tension from globalisation:

8. Paris Attacks – political tension
from globalisation
• Watch this video here
• Motivation?
• Charlie Hebdo had attracted attention for its controversial depictions of
Muhammad. Hatred for Charlie Hebdo's cartoons, which made jokes
about Islamic leaders as well as Muhammad, is considered to be the
principal motive for the massacre. Michael Morell, former deputy
director of the CIA, suggested that the motive of the attackers
was "absolutely clear: trying to shut down a media organisation that
lampooned the Prophet Muhammad".[65]
• In March 2013, Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen, commonly known as Al-
Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), released a hit list in an edition
of their English-language magazine Inspire. The list included Stéphane
Charbonnier and others whom AQAP accused of insulting
Islam.[66][67] On 9 January, AQAP claimed responsibility for the attack in a
speech from AQAP's top Shariah cleric Harith bin Ghazi al-Nadhari,
citing the motive as "revenge for the honor" of Muhammad.[68]

9. Environmental tension resulting from the rapidity of
global change:
Climate change will
cause inter-communal
conflict when
communities cannot
meet their basic needs
as a function of the
Earth’s diminished
carrying capacity or as a
result of competition
over specific resources,
such as water.

10. Environmental tension resulting from the rapidity of global change:

11. Environmental tension resulting from the rapidity of global
change:
Trans-boundary water Conflicts
• The trans-boundary basins and aquifers link
populations of different countries and support the
incomes and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of
people worldwide.
• Politicians and map makers have not helped
as boundaries and borders do not fit with
river catchments or aquifers.

12. Demand exceeds supply
• Between 1950-2000, out of the 2000 international disputes, 75% were about the
quantity of water available and 25% about the impact of dams.
• Conflict is more likely in developing nations where water is vital to feed struggling
growing populations and promote industrial development.
• As a result the Helsinki Rules and the Mekong River Commission have been
established to try and manage conflict in the future, e.g. The Mekong River
Commission worked with Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam and dealt with
HEP, flood control etc. Watch HERE
• Also see the video here from Perkins – Mekong from 12.20

13. Over to you:
• Using the information gathered in this lesson, pick one
aspect, i.e. Political, Social or Environmental and write a
short news bulletin or draw a cartoon strip that summarises
the potential tensions that can arise from an increasingly
‘borderless world’.
• We will Peer assess these next lesson.