Migration and Globalization Forms, Patterns and Effects

Page 102 | Trilogue Salzburg 2017 Background Paper Migration and Globalization Forms, Patterns and Effects Thanos Dokos Introduction Starting with the slow outward movement of our common African ancestors, Migration is as old as humanity itself and played an important role in the evolution of culture and civilization. Without migrants spreading their various cultures, languages, religions, customs, ideas and ways of life, the course of world history most certainly would have evolved quite differently. As the global population increased from billion in 1970 to billion today, Globalization , economic inequalities and demographic developments have contributed to sizeable migratory flows, predominantly from the Global South to the Global North. Europe is faced today with a conflict zone stretching across the Middle East and North Africa, and with several fragile countries, rapidly growing populations, rising urbanization and huge economic inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

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