GLOBAL INTEGRATION THROUGH MIGRATION. THE GERMAN CASE

After the second half of the XXth century, human international migration became one of the main agents of social transformation and development in all the regions of the world. However, its importance seems to be growing in the XXIst century, along with the growth of the total amount of population. Globalization can be best explained as a set of processes, global by purpose, that cross the territorial borders of states, and, therefore, profoundly affect the nature and tasks of national governance in the world political economy, including international migration. Our approach on the relationship between migration and globalization rests on the premise that in the structure, dynamic and forms of the international financial and commercial flows have occurred more changes that in the structure, dynamic and forms of the international migration flows, despite the increasing scale and variety of migration in different parts of the world. Although migration is not subject to such profound changes in regard to its forms and dynamic, the globalization of international relations, regardless their nature, brings along significant changes in the social, economic and political context in which international migration takes place. Consequently, a series of new challenges and issues appear in those areas connected or depending on international migration, no matter if they are being handled on a national, regional or international level. In order to better illustrate these hypothesis, we chose to present the situation of Germany in the context of international migration, as it is one of the countries that receives great amounts of migrant population.