Migration and Globalization

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Migration and Globalization 1 Migration and Globalization Table of Contents Introduction ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ ............. 2 A Brief History of Migration ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ ............................. 4 Migration in an Earlier Era of Globalization ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ 4 Post-World War II Migration .

A World Bank report, International Migration and the Global Economic Order, estimates that 10 percent of the world's population was migrating in this time period, whereas migration today is around three percent. Growing prosperity, falling transport costs relative to wages, and lower risk all helped to facilitate

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