How Does Globalization Promote or Limit Labor Migration in the Sending or Receiving Countries?

Globalization is a system where people, organizations, and governments of different nation interact with each other and as a result, drive international trade and investment. Because of this ‘interaction’, globalization also has an impact on the environment, culture, political systems, and economic development in societies all over the world. In relation to labor migration, globalization’s growing pace has brought an increase in the number of migrants through the course of years.

Workers in developing countries continue to look for employments in other countries due to increasing rates of unemployment and poverty in their home countries while developed countries continue to increase their demands for labor, particularly unskilled labor. Hence, millions of people travel across countries to find work and constantly change their living locations as they aspire for a better quality of life. While labor migration has long existed before the age of globalization, it enabled these people migrate and move more easily—thanks to interaction and growing connection among many countries.

As previously mentioned, globalization has brought an increase in labor demand by developed countries. This is due to the increased cooperation among countries that has allowed freer movement of persons from one country to another, which has definitely increased the rate of labor migration on both sending and receiving countries. Furthermore, as globalization continues to be rampant, reconstructions of economies among countries may cause turmoil in the social system that may result to a change in communities, prompting people to look for work abroad. Thus, promoting immigration as labor migration pressures intensify.

However, there are also factors that limit labor migration due to globalization despite its promoting factors. As the case of developing counties that was mentioned in the first paragraph, it could be assumed that most, if not all, labor sending countries are...