International Migration as Unrecognized Aspect of Globalization

Abstract

Presented article examines the problem of interrelationship between modem international migrations and globalization. It puts forward and defends a thesis holding that current migratory inflows constitute a vital, however still unrecognized, aspect of economic globalization. In particular the article analysis the essence of globalization process and the structure of contemporary world system, followed by the discussion on the relation between the two processes: international migrations and globalization. It discovers and justifies a feedback-like relationship between the two phenomena. The article utilizes resent publication on globalization as well as statistics on the volume of international inflows.