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 ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ ....................... 6 Migration Today.

minimize the economic, cultural, and security impacts of large movements of people between nations. Despite the reluctance of governments to liberalize immigration policy, however, the number of people living outside their countries of origin has risen from 120 million in 1990 to an estimated 215 million in 2012 (The World Bank, 2012), which is

  Economic, Cultural, Impact, Migration