How is migration contributing to and reflecting the challenges of globalization?

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During the last presidential campaign in France, many debates occurred about the immigration and the globalization. Indeed, some of the candidates denounced the danger that the migration was for the employment and the good economic health of the country, because of the globalization which tends to exacerbate the international concurrence. This kind of debates is quite surprising about this country when we know that foreign workers used to help it after the Second World War to rebuild the country.

This example is interesting, because it reflects an evolution of the mentalities about the migration question, and it raise questions about the migration role in the globalized world that we know, because France is a great power, and this behavior is actually revealing of the political debates in the Western Europe.

In this essay, we are going to wonder how really migration contributes and reflects the challenges of globalization. We will try to show in a first part of the migration is reflecting the historical and current evolution of globalization. After that, we will explain how migration is economically contributing to globalization, before talking in a last part of the place of the human in globalization.

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[...] Nowadays, the phenomenon of migration is reflecting a globalization in which the gap between western and eastern countries is rising. One of the main challenges of the globalization, if not the main, is to find means to help the developing countries in order to reduce this gap. The migration's fluxes help to understand the globalized world, and sometimes give us allegories of the international system. The growth of the number of megalopolis in some developed countries is due to the migrations. [...]

[...] These movements of people are important in a globalized world, because they allow a lot of connections, which can be economic, cultural, or even simply physical. Furthermore, migration is a burning issue, which is nowadays one of the main challenges of the globalization. The theory of Rosewarne about the global worker” is very useful to understand how the migration helps us to understand the globalization and its challenges ( Rosewarne, 2010). The globalization phenomenon is not only about financial fluxes, but also about workforce's repartition around the world. According to Rosewarn, coupled with the international capitalist system, globalisation has engendered a commodification of labour”. [...]

[...] This consultation failed, because countries were worrying about their unemployment rates, and that is the interesting point. Indeed, because of the fears of the European protagonists that the moves of the Jewish German population could ‘disturbing the general economy' (Moorehead, 2005). This example is really relevant because it shows that the question of migration is linked with globalization, even if in this case, the globalization is only seen as European and in terms of economics issues. Furthermore, this case illustrates the fact that issues related to migration have not always been seen as problematical; maybe because of the scale of population's move which used to be smaller than nowadays. [...]

[...] Because of the bombings and of the huge amount of people dead during this conflict, the globalization process came back to life under the form of the trade of reconstruction. And the migrations of workforce in Europe was reflecting this process, but was also a contribution to it, allowing the countries to develop again. The globalization is linked to the migratory flux, that's mainly why migration is reflecting globalization. All along the history, the globalization has been linked with the migration. [...]

[...] In a context of big international financial and economic crisis, the migrations are currently sene as a problem in lots of developed countries, when it may be a solution, if it was dealt with in the good way, to improve the repartition of the wealth on the earth. Bibliography Aneesh, A. (2006), Virtual Migration, Duke University Press, Durham. Castles, S. and Miller M. J. (2008), The Age of Migration: international population movements in the modern world, 4th ed., Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. Moorehead, C. (2005), Human Cargo: A journey among refugees, Chatto & Windus, London, prologue and part 1. [...]