Journal - week16

         In the article 'Transnational struggles for water and power' and 'Dams, Democracy, and development in Transnational perspective' by Sanjeev has talked about the increasing numbers of the big dam building during the 1900s in the United Stated, the Great Britain and Soviet Union where the first major and powerful hydropower dam, the Desprostoi located. Because of the transnational big dam building contribute to big international regime such as ICOLD in order to share information about big dam building through out the world. But started from the mid 1960s to late 1900s, when the number of dam building went steady and less which they assumed because of four factors which are technical; no available area to build new dam, financial; inadequate funding, economic and political; decreasing financial viability of and changing economic benefit-cost regulation and anti group who against the building of dams. Anti dam building has become the main focus such as environmental movement, human rights and etc. Partly, I think it is because of the globalization with the efficient in technology in transportation and communication allow these group of people have a connection with each other easier meanwhile there are existence of transnational actors, coalitions, networks and nongovernmental organization help the linkage between different group of people or nations who has the same goal like environmental actors as i mentioned earlier. These created the main obstacle toward the dam building. As nowadays, many countries have came up with many projects to construct the energy sources not only dam but some other energy source like nuclear power plant without consideration of people lives. So these transnational actors, coalitions, networks and nongovernmental organization became a big role to help out with the human rights and environmental or even gender issues as well.

Journal - Week 15

           Gringolandia is located in Cancun, Mexico, which locals refer it as a term that reflects the circus-like spectacle of the overbuilt resort, embedded in a region deeply divided by uneven development and the ensuing inequitable power relations.

          Because of globalization facilitate the travel easier for the people from one country to other country. So there are high number of tourists who visit Cancun. So, the elite and government only develop in the area where tourist will be visit instead of locals area where all the workers and immigrants are located. As Cancun can be divides into three geographical spaces which are the tourist zone including large number of hotel strip on the Cancun island, the FONATUR planned service city for local government and workers, and 'lost city' (Colonia Puerto Juarez shanty town) which spontaneously developed with the arrival of immigrant population seeking for work. This larger the gap of inequality between the locals and higher level of the citizens. Even though the high number of tourists increase the financial level of the country but on the other hand it has effect on the environmental and social issues. With the popularity of Gringolandia inspired lots of migrants to relocated and come work here in this area which caused the transnationalism where people across the borders of nation states. 

Journal - Week 14

               Rights in general term defined as the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory which everyone should have since the day that they were born.      

          'Men, are born and remain free and equal in rights'

          'Every man is born with inalienable and indefeasible rights'

          According to the reading 'Biopolitics and the rights of man' mentioned a contradiction whether the rights belong to every persons or the rights belong to only citizens within the nation-state which left the question what about the refugees? Will they be provided by rights as other people? Because of the creation of the notion of nation-state lead to the existence of nationality. People started to identify who they are as they started to question What is French? What is German? Even though refugees are not identified by any member of any state but it should have their own rights as any other human being should have not only citizens; as the new status of life as origin and ground of sovereignty, as it quoted in the context that 'refugee is truly the man of rights.'

         

Journal - Week 12

          Mentioning about immigrants; refer to people who cross border to another states with difference purposes but usually for permanent residence. According to the reading 'The maze of Fear', it has shown how Americans were threatened by immigrants through different kinds of subversion such as religious, political, economic and racial subversion. As we know American is a civilize place where people want to be residence of as nowadays we can found wide ranges of immigrants from over the world in America or we called it 'Salad Bowl'.

          In every human being, we have our own sense of belonging like where we come from, nationality, language and many more which differentiate us from other people within the same state or outside state boundary. But we cannot strongly feel and identify our differences if we do not look from other view or step outside the boundary. For example, when i was in the States, I told them I am from Thailand but they've simply mistaken that I am from Taiwan. So I was like no NO!, I'm from Thailand. I am personally feel that I am Thai and cannot be called by anything else. In the same sense, when immigrants migrate to different state, they will bring their culture and language to the new society and expand to the new generation until it becomes society of their own.

          As a native American feel the threat of these immigrants because they new comer immigrants will bring the culture which will influence the one that they've already had there. On the other hand, these group of immigrants can be easily target because of the different of their appearance which can caused racism in the society. Somehow, the commonness of immigrants not only in American but in the other state that has the same background seem to link and understand one another well.