This document discusses superdiversity and the political subject. It explores how global migration allows people to think outside the box. It examines connectivity politics and how the struggle for cities is connected to the struggle for the world. Personal connections to the global are discussed. Charts show that remittances sent worldwide and to Senegal surpass foreign direct investment and development aid. The birth of grassroots globalism from an urban perspective is mentioned.

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Thinking out of the box
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Social & Urban Geography Research Group

4. Superdiversity politics

5. Connectivity politics: the struggle for
the city is a struggle for the world

6. Propinquity: the global becomes personal

7. Connectivity, propinquity and
solidarity outside the box

8. Remittances worldwide

9. Remittances vs FDI and development
aid in Senegal
Stuyck, K. (2010)
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10. Remittances: share of GDP

11. organisation

13. The birth of Global Politics: towards
Urban Grassroots Globalism
“Things will only change when Belgium realizes
that no country is an island, that there are
consequences for actions and that yes, the
world has moved on. ” (C. Unigwe, 2014)