Respuestas
Respuesta:
The phenomenon of globalization is omnipresent and obvious, well-documented, mapped, and quantified when it comes to economic exchanges between states, large multinational companies, flow of passengers and freight traffic, airport hubs and maritime corridors, and ‘global cities’ that concentrate business and capital (Sassen 1991). More inconspicuous and elusive is the globalization of peripheral areas and small players who are involved in this phenomenon on the margins. Some enlightening research over the past twenty years has helped to better understand what has been termed “globalization from below” (Portes 1997, Tarrius 2002), that is to say, globalization driven by transnational movements of people and often characterized by informal relations. Our aim is to extend this body of research in order to understand the latest developments in this process. We also seek to complement research by no longer focusing solely on the actors but also to have a more precise understanding of the spatiality of the global. More specifically, our approach seeks to grasp how certain areas, once considered peripheral, have now become fully part of globalization. These spaces, in which complex economic, social and spatial dynamics are embedded, are strategic for understanding globalization and its new global and significant impacts on the margins of the world.
In few words. Globalization is everywhere.