TY - JOUR
T1 - Competitiveness, migration, and mobility in the global city
T2 - Insights from sydney, australia
AU - Hu, Richard
N1 - Funding Information:
This study received financial support from the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection. The author wishes to thank the following people for their contribution: Richard Manderson and William McClure provided useful comments on the study; Dan Payne and Yang Liu helped produce the map and visuals; and Shaun Allen and Lucas Carmody provided research assistance.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2015/3
Y1 - 2015/3
N2 - The global city thesis and the migration thesis concern two important dimensions of the impacts of contemporary globalization on cities. The two theses are intrinsically linked. The central question is how we should approach migration in the new context of the global city, and how we should articulate their interrelationships. To address this question, we construct an integrative analytical framework linking global city and migration, and empirically apply it to Sydney. We build a set of indexes to measure global competitiveness, global migration, and global mobility of communities across global Sydney. The findings reveal that global competitiveness—the defining capacity of Sydney as a global city—has very weak association with global migration that measures the stock of foreign born population, but has very strong association with global mobility that measures the people movement in recent years. These findings call for a redefinition of migration to incorporate people movement to better capture the interplay between global city and migration.
AB - The global city thesis and the migration thesis concern two important dimensions of the impacts of contemporary globalization on cities. The two theses are intrinsically linked. The central question is how we should approach migration in the new context of the global city, and how we should articulate their interrelationships. To address this question, we construct an integrative analytical framework linking global city and migration, and empirically apply it to Sydney. We build a set of indexes to measure global competitiveness, global migration, and global mobility of communities across global Sydney. The findings reveal that global competitiveness—the defining capacity of Sydney as a global city—has very weak association with global migration that measures the stock of foreign born population, but has very strong association with global mobility that measures the people movement in recent years. These findings call for a redefinition of migration to incorporate people movement to better capture the interplay between global city and migration.
KW - Competitiveness
KW - Global city
KW - Migration
KW - Mobility
KW - Sydney
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85021954656&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/economies3010037
DO - 10.3390/economies3010037
M3 - Article
SN - 2227-7099
VL - 3
SP - 37
EP - 54
JO - Economies
JF - Economies
IS - 1
ER -