Forum on Public Policy Globalization and its Effect on National Security

World migration has been going on for millennia. However, due to the impact of two great World Wars, numerous colonization struggles, civil wars, and geopolitical and ethnic divisions during the 20th century, mass global migration has reached an unprecedented magnitude facilitated by the ease of movement between Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Western nations. This vast movement of immigrants into the more industrialized nations has caused a great strain on the economy as well as the national security of the host countries. The composition of the present mass migration involves migrants whose cultures are more disparate from the host country, even to the extent of imposing a threat to the security of that country. In order for the national security of a host country to be less jeopardized, its government must focus much more on the human aspects of the immigrant societies: their language, history, culture, religious affiliation norms, family and/or tribal affiliations, as well as the international and internal relations of the country from which the migrants come. The primary purpose of this paper is the explication of the problems posed by this compositional change in global migration, particularly on its effects on National Security