Before you start read Burn: Ch. 7 “Women and Globalization” Pp. 150-169;
Global Woman: Ch. 2, 3, & 4, also study the maps and charts on Migration Trends on P. 276-280
Instruction: Your analytical term paper should be related to at the least three themes or subject matters:
gender; socio-economic development policies or strategies; and globalization.
So, I expect a more relevant proposal from you.
More Examples: Globalization and human trafficking (Sex & Labor); The Nanny Dilemma; Migration (who,
where, and why); Mail ordered brides; Maid to order; Outsourcing and Maquiladora (Hints: why do
Transnational Corporations hire mostly women, especially younger women?); Why so many women are killed
and disappear in Juarez, Mexico?; How is COVID-19 pandemic related to development policies and
globalization?; What are pros and cons on NAFTA (North America Free Trade Agreement)?; Climate Change
and Development priorities; Compare two countries with each other with regard to gender and development
criteria; Pros and Cons of globalization; What kind of development strategies/policies make people happier?; …
Film: The Global Assembly Line (women and globalization in America & Asia) 58 minutes
In 1986, nearly a decade before NAFTA’s passage, filmmaker Lorraine W. Gray takes us to the maquiladoras
of Juarez, Mexico, to the electronics factories of an export-processing zone in the Philippines, and to shuttered
plants in Eastern Tennessee, USA paying particular attention to how the outsourcing of labor from the U.S. has
influenced the lives of young women in the Global South:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq1KJxBI2jQ&feature=emb_title (Links to an external site.)
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