One of the major recent changes in contemporary international affairs is the increase in the scope and intensity of social and economic relations, or the development of what has commonly been termed globalization. There is little doubt that various elements of globalization have served to facilitate the volume and diversity of international migration flows. The motivation for this paper is that international migration has received relatively little attention in the present debate on globalization. People have always left their homes in search of better economic opportunities, both within and outside of their own homeland. But economic globalization has put a new spin on global migration, causing global uprootedness and human displacement on an unprecedented scale. Because economic globalization exacerbates the inequalities between nations, migration for many becomes not a choice, but an economic necessity.