Globalization And Immigration Essay

Following a failed attempt in the 1940s to internationalize the world economy and promote social change within the third world through the development project, the world struggled to overcome the development project’s limitations through the globalization project by means of political intervention, which also had disastrous, potentially irreversible, effects. In this paper, I will show the disastrous impacts of globalization and its effects on immigration and migration in first and third world countries. This correlation is thoroughly researched and accepted among economists, sociologists, and the like. This paper is broken down into four sections in order to allow the reader to better understand the correlation between globalization and immigration. In Section I, I will discuss globalization; namely, I will analyze the globalization project, the goals of the globalization project, and examine whether or not it was successful in achieving its goals. Section II considers migration and immigration; specifically, it will depict immigration and migration as a consequence of globalization, analyze immigration patterns, and explore how first world countries have responded to the increase of …show more content…
In fact, it has generally caused the rich to grow richer and the poor to grow poorer. As a whole, while globalization should be bringing the countries of the world together, it seems to be driving them apart and creating more inequality between first and third world countries than ever before. The following sections will briefly discuss how this increasing inequality, as a result of globalization efforts, is causing many people to migrate to other countries as economic refugees. It will also discuss first world countries responses to the increase in immigration, and, generally, whether or not immigrant’s lives actually improve upon emigrating from the third to the first