What Was The Impact Of Globalization On Los Angeles

Following the white flight and globalization, there were multiple inequalities among race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic class in cities, especially Los Angeles in the 1980s. This created an environment that allowed for diverse and outcast groups to come together and build connections to try and build a better life for themselves. Los angeles is major hub for these groups to come together and it became one of the biggest hubs for immigrant rights. The major urban mobilizers were the white flight movement and globalization which caused the lost of jobs within cities, especially manufacturing jobs. The white middle class fled out of the city to move to suburbs which left the cities with no funding backbone to support their institutions.
The city not only grew large in numbers, but in space as well. It became decentralized and instead of building around a center hub like other cities, it spread out and became sprawling. (Soja, 1996, p. 434). The sprawling effect was a result of the white flight and globalization. People were moving out to suburbs which had freeways that would connect them back into the city. Even farther, manufacturing jobs in Los Angeles were being spread outside of the country, through globalization (Soja, 1996, p. 435). Los Angeles was one of the most segregated cities because it forced these minority people to be in these impoverish areas. This only made it worse for them because there weren’t many jobs within that area which forces them to be stuck in the horrible living
There were multiple anti-immigration laws like proposition 187 and S.B. 1070. Many groups were boycotting and many chicano american people were standing up for their rights to stop these laws. Dr. Torres talked about how when he was in high school, student would do walk outs to boycott the school for discrimination against chicanos (Dr. Torres, November 15, 2016). These groups started off small but as they grew momentum they began to build connections with other groups. Organization like the ACLU and the day laborers organization began to push towards labor unions to be able to guarantee rights for their workers. They also had a team from UCLA Planners that help intellectually plan out how to implement their campaign in the city. Los Angles soon became the biggest hub for immigrant rights campaigns and now they are branching out to other cities around the country. In 2014, many immigration rights activists came out to the White House and chained themselves to it. They were able to push President Obama’s administration to pass DAPA and DACA (Nicholls, 2016,