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
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