The Journal of Foreign Policy

The Journal of Foreign Policy

Immigration and Politics in Global Geopolitical Context

Document Type : Research Paper

Abstract
The international trend of immigration has generated new developments in global geopolitics. On one hand, nation-states try to control and manage the successive waves of immigration facilitated by global mafia and, on the other hand, immigration is promoted by anti-national and trans-territorial forces which do not respect the borders, territories, regulations, sovereignty and security of states. The present article explains how the current world will be subordinate to the balance and equilibrium between these two opposing forces. It also indicates that we are in a transition toward a new world order which its rules are not fixed yet and the balance between governmental and non-governmental forces is not shaped. Therefore, in such a geopolitical context, today immigration has turned to a ‘security challenge’ which many states are not able to control or manage its ramifications. Moreover, this trend has its own detrimental humanitarian risks and consequences for immigrants, the target countries, and the migrants’ homelands.
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