Globalisation and Migration Case Studies

TNC - Tesco

Global operations of a TNC in one LIC

• Strategy of diversification into new markets
• Outsourcing: from UK producers and producers in LICs like Kenya, Sri Lanka etc.
• Globalisation started in 1990s with Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic
• 1998, Taiwan, Thailand, 60% of profits come from Asia
• Uses agriculture from Thailand to make products then resells in Thailand
• Office jobs given to majority HIC
• Employs 750,000 people

Bhutan

Sustainable tourism project

• Attracts alternative tourists: mountain scenery, rich heritage, ancient temples & shrines, trekkers, birdwatchers, utopian appeal
• 1974 - King realised hotels built to accommodate guests could be used for tourism to generate foreign exchange
• Isolate for 300 years
• Limited to 5,000 people a year
• Must pay at least $240 a day per person

Mexico to USA migration

International migration flow: causes and consequences

• Push: crime rates, 10 homicides per 100,000 people, drug-related
• 47,500 people killed in past 5 years due to drug-related issues
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