RMIT Global Society: Labor, Immigrant Reading Reflection

This assignment is a reflection on readings concerning labor and immigration within a global society, specifically reviewing articles by Connell & Burgess (2009) and Fuligni & Tsai (2015). It identifies the primary purpose and focus of the articles, which include the impact of globalization on labor markets, the phenomenon of labor migration, and the debate surrounding the benefits and challenges of labor globalization. The key arguments raised include the increasing capacity of developing countries, potential devaluation of skilled workers due to technology, wage imbalances among migrant workers, and the impact of immigration on local employment. The reflection evaluates the readings by discussing the distribution of jobs through technology, migration patterns from developing countries, and the perception of local laborers towards immigrant workers. It concludes that globalization is a revolutionary force, highlighting both its positive and negative impacts on the nature of work and labor markets.

Work in a Global
Society
Labor and Immigrant

Name of paper reviewed
Connell, J. and Burgess, J., 2009. Migrant workers, migrant
work, public policy and human resource
management. International Journal of Manpower, 30(5),
pp.412-421.
Fuligni, A.J. and Tsai, K.M., 2015. Developmental flexibility in
the age of globalization: Autonomy and identity development
among immigrant adolescents. Annual review of
psychology, 66, pp.411-431.
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Primary purpose and focus of the article
• The globalization is enhancing the market and the modern
phenomenon. The migration of labors are enhancing
• The world issue of globalization of labor and the connection with
world economy
• The debate that how labor globalization is helping the world and
the changes that the employees are going through.
• The structure of the organization and employment.
• The division of the labor in the global market in respect to their
education (Connell and Burgess 2009)
• The reason of their migration and what are the effects of that.
• The casual network of hiring migrants.
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Key arguments raised in the reading
• The capacity of the third world country is increasing and they
are getting opportunities however it is creating an imbalance in
the population of the first world country.
• The globalization of technology will decrease the value of the
people who are skilled and good at their work.
• There is an imbalance in the salary of the migrant workers,
there are few who are under paid and less given a lower post
and there are some which is given proper wedges by the
government (Fuligni and Tsai 2015).
• Another argument is that the increase in immigration is creating
a problem for the western world as the employment of local
workers are decreasing.
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Relevance of reading to understanding the
changing nature of work and/or labour markets
• The globalization is changing the nature of the work, the introduction of
technologies are lessening the work of the people which is resulting in loss of
work
• The globalization is indication towards higher studies and therefore the
education system is given more importance.
•The globalization is labour market is also creating a political misbalance and
people of that particular country is increasing unemployment for the local
workers.
•Even though mostly it has positive point and through migrant labours more
people will get chances.
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Evaluation of the reading
• The distribution of jobs that is available in the global market is just through
technological development.
• The developing countries are trying to migrate into the first world country.
• There are cases where local labourers are not understanding and blaming the
immigrant workers for their lack of job.
• Globalization is bringing a revolution in the world.
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