ALCIDE DE GASPERI

UNIVERSITY OF EUROREGIONAL
ECONOMY

JOZEFOW, POLAND

Case Study:
Globalization and Families
By
Ishang Pateliya
ID.: 8549

Globalization has a wide impact on families. It effects on family

values. There are several factors which describes the impact of
globalization on family and its values. They are as follows:
 Changes at the global level are producing transitional families,
families where at least one parent lives and works in a different
nation than children.
 Patterns of migration, war, and economic development have a
profound effect on the social structure of families.
  Commercialization and rapid urbanization have resulted in
breakdown of traditional large families into nuclear areas.
 Expanded rate of female education example of the impact of
globalization.
 The global flow refers to the movement of the entire families from
one country to another with no difficulties.
 Human trafficking refers to the buying and selling of children for
illegal human traffic human organs.
 There is a global conflict as a reason of ‘marriage squeeze’ leaves
women without a satisfactory number of appropriate male
partners.

Bahira Sharif Trask from Department of human development and

family studies, USA, has written few lines regarding globalization and
family:
As our world becomes increasingly interconnected through
economic integration, technology and communication and political
transformation, the sphere of family is a fundamental area where
globalizing processes become realized. Ever growing communication
and information technologies allow families and individuals to have
access to others in an unprecedented manner. These relationships are
accompanied by new conceptualizations of appropriate lifestyles,
identities and ideologies even among those who may never be able to
access them.
Despite a general acknowledgement of the complexity and
significance inherent in globalization, most analyses top-down, focus
in the global economy. Corporate strategies and political streams. This
limited perspective of globalization has had profound implications for
understandings social life. The impact of globalization on gender
ideologies, work family relationships, conceptualization of children,
youth and the elderly have been virtually absent in mainstream
approaches, creating false impression that dichotomize globalization as
a separate process from the social order. These inaccurate assumptions
have profound implications for families and for the globalization
process itself. In order to create and that could reverse some of the
deleterious affects that have affected the world’s most vulnerable
populations, we need to make the interplay between globalization and
families a primary focus.