Globalization and Poverty: Drivers of Contemporary International Migrations

Abstract

In the late twentieth century, poverty and disenchantment in the promise of a better world, immersed in the paradigm of globalization, as a result of advances in telecommunications and transport, stimulated national, regional and international migration flows. As a result, the growth of the cities accelerated without any planning, which led to a new form of peri-urban life, marked by the meeting of different ethnicities and diverse life forms that define the main metropolitan areas of the world. The present investigation analyzes the economic and social factors that embody migration, as a result of poverty and globalization. From the epistemological point of view, the analytical method is used to examine the different variables and their relations of association in a global context, where frustration in modernity and technological functionalism (as a hope for economic and social progress) is manifested in the gap between the rich world and the poor world; where the exodus constitutes an exit before the failed globalization that did not give the expected results in terms of reducing inequality.