Is globalisation accelerating migrations?
The circulation of information and goods, the development of transport, the internationalisation of the western model of consumption, and also the search for alternatives to that model, all these effects of globalisation are helping to facilitate or generate an intensification of migration flows. And yet, the main reasons that push people to migrate remain (socio-economic situations, conflict and violence, policies), and the same applies to the reasons why immigration is needed (economic or demographic). The number of migrants has increased quickly: 77 million in 1965, 111 million in 1990, 140 million in 1997, 175 million in 2000 (2.8% of the world’s population), 281 million in 2020 ( 3.6% of the world’s population (UN), i.e., for a total population of 7.7 billion, 1 out of every 30 people.