Alankrita Jasaiwal, O.P Jindal Global University (Jindal Global Law School)
ABSTRACT
In the past few decades, the world changed like never before with socio- cultural, economic and political advancements that brought along the import and export of ideas and ideologies. The advent of globalisation opened borders, shrinking the world across spatial and temporal dimensions. As cross-boundary trade diversified, so did international migration in search of economic prosperity and a better life. While globalisation made such movements possible, the lack of regulatory infrastructure attached negative connotations to ‘migration’. This was aggravated by the refugee crisis caused due to human rights violations and persecution of individuals across countries (mostly due to conflicts that occurred as a consequence of the ruthless interference by the powerful states in the affairs of other countries for their vested interests). As conflict caused migration increased and discourses around movement became more populist, regulation laws became strict and the demand for controlling migration intensified. Soon the dominant view saw migration, whether forced or economic, as bad and a problematic issue that needs redressal.
In this paper, I have attempted to trace and establish the link between the concept of globalisation with migration and explain how the former influences the latter. I have also analysed how migration when forced i.e., occurring as a result of persons fleeing violence, persecution or in apprehension or fear of persecution gives rise to refugee crises, which too is an indirect impact of the globalising world. This paper primarily focuses on the dark side of globalisation, it, however, does not intend to classify globalisation as a bad phenomenon, but merely attempts to throw some light on the less visited side of the coin. When discussing Globalisation and migration (first part), this paper discusses only economic migration as the second part deals with globalisation and forced migration- the problem (so- called) of refugees.
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