Globalization and International Migration: Trends, Puzzles and Theoretical Models

The relationship between international migration & globalization is generally understood in very simple & incomplete terms in the current research literature. Many studies address globalization only partially or focus on one-sided views, such as how economic globalization (expanding trade, travel, & communications) promotes increased international migration. Such formulations are a good starting point but extremely inadequate for a broader understanding because they ignore the impact of other important dimensions & impacts of globalization. They ignore, for example, how globalization generates anxiety in migrant-receiving countries about job loss & changes to national culture & how these fears promote new state policies that seek to restrict, control, & select international migrants. And they ignore the ways in which globalization increases the desire for people in less developed countries to move to the more economically developed countries. The purpose of this paper is to develop a more complex view in which different aspects of globalization & their often-contradictory outcomes are taken into account. 3 Tables, 5 Figures, 29 References. Adapted from the source document.