Unit 16 – P1 Notes Internal factors Organisational needs - The workforce needs to be able to adapt to changes. Demand for products and services will affect the number of people needed in certain roles. Businesses can look to move into new markets - this could mean abroad and staff needing new skills such as languages. More staff may be needed in distribution if the business grows. Technological change can also affect the internal working arrangements - machinery leads to redundancies, new training may be needed etc.
International migration is people’s movement across countries or continents. For the purpose of this essay it will focus on the movement of people around the UK borders both internally and internationally. The essay describes the connection between the movement of people and the places they pass through or reside in. The essay also deals with connections with institutions within the UK and why the movement of migrants help make the UK institutions what they are today. The essays three main point’s people, places and institutions will be broken down further to evaluate and explain what is meant by each point, describing the connections and disconnections the movement of people create.
• What difficulties do you face because of who you are, where you came from, or where you live now? Immigration Guide If you choose to write an immigration guide, be sure to include the following information: • For which home country are you writing the guide? • What immigration laws may apply to immigrants using your guide? • What can immigrants expect their journey to be like? • What can immigrants expect immediately upon arrival?
GENTRIFICATION : AN ETHICAL DILEMMA IN A CHANGING WORLD INTRODUCTION Today's urban areas have evolved from manufacturing focused hubs to community based centers focused on services. With that change a heavily debated issue of gentrification has arisen. Areas previously occupied by low income manual laborers are being converted to trendy middle class neighborhoods. Understanding what gentrification is, why it is an ethical issue, who is making the decisions, and what the effects of the decision to gentrify a neighborhood are will provide the basis for an informed opinion on this growing topic. Each of the sections below will examine an aspect related to the benefits and detriments of gentrification, and will allow for a cohesive understanding of an issue that will continue to be hotly contested, not just in the United States but globally.
Another example of this could be fiddling expenses. Because of newer technologies that have been introduced, companies are becoming more globalised and having offices in different countries, meaning that they pick up the costs of sending staff members over to these countries. Sometimes this
What were the main political and economic reasons behind the Australian governments’ pursuit of policies of mass immigration from the late 1940s to the late 1960s? In what ways have government and community attitudes to large-scale immigration changed since then? Australia is known throughout the world as a multicultural society. Its large-scale migration program at the end of World War Two is one of the major building foundations leading to our identity. Agreements were reached with Britain, some European countries and with the International Refugee Organization to encourage migration, including displaced people from war-torn Europe.
GENTRIFICATION in Hackney - Regeneration or Degeneration? Image taken in Hackney, London, July 2006 by Tom Slater As a constantly evolving city and due to a continually changing nature of modern economy, London has always been adapting and readjusting itself. These adjustments are in part spatial manifestations that reflect and result in cultural and social changes. Eagland (2000) A result of these changes is the process called Gentrification, term that has its origins in the word gentry which denotes “people of good social position, specifically the class of people next below the nobility in position and birth”. Neil Smith sees Gentrification as the “process (…) by which poor and working class neighborhoods in the inner city are refurbished
It can change the ideas of living to the traveler and makes a traveler think deeply to understand other people culture, and ways of living. Therefore travel is a change that goes on, deep and permanent in the ideas of living. It is universally acknowledged that a man in a good fortune must be in want of travel for sights seeing. In contrast, it is more than seeing sights. By traveling, it gives chance people to communicate with other people from different cultural backgrounds and exchange the customs.
Vicente Garcia English 100- Elder 2/27/12 Assimilation: They key to success for immigrants The history of the world can be described as a history of immigration, in which people move to different areas and are forced to cohabitate, or not in some cases, and adapt to their new surroundings. The conflicts or compromises that arise from the intermixing of people from different backgrounds play a large role in shaping the host country, and the world in general. Think about the events in American history that have been caused by its diverse population, and how profoundly the country has been divided due to them. The civil rights movement, and the ever ongoing issues of illegal immigration have left deep marks and folded pages in America’s
Globalization has affected the way things work in the economy and environments everywhere, it can be known as the primary cause that go on around the world. Globalization connects different cultures, and helps the spread of ideas, throughout many regions. Although globalization has many definitions, it can be