Global migration entails the globalization of people.

And like the broader globalization process, it is uneven.

 Some migrants experience their movement as a liberating
process.
 A highly educated professional may find it financially
rewarding.
 A victim of sex trafficking may view the process as
dislocating and disempowering.
 Global migration is siphoning qualified personnel and
removing dynamic young workers.
 Fifty-two percent of Filipinos who leave for work in the
developed world have tertiary education, which is more
than double the 23 percent of the overall Filipino
population.
 The loss of professionals in certain key roles have been
detrimental to the migrants’ home countries.
 On the top issue of brain drain, sending states must
likewise protect migrant workers.
 The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation lists
human trafficking as the third largest criminal activity
worldwide.
 In 2012, the ILO identified 21 million men, women, and
children as victims of “forced labor”, an appalling 3 out of
1000 persons worldwide.
 Many richer states know that migrant labor will be
beneficial for their economies.
 With their aging populations, Japan and Germany will need
workers from demographically young countries like the
Philippines.
 As the working populations in countries like the United
States move to more skilled careers, their economies will
require migrants to work jobs that their local workers are
beginning to reject.
 The Conserve Energy Future website lists the following
challenges that the world faces today.
The depredation caused by industrial and
transportation toxins and plastic in the ground; the
defiling of the sea, rivers, and water beds by oil spills
and acid rain; the dumping of urban waste
 The Conserve Energy Future website lists the following
challenges that the world faces today.
The changes in global weather patterns and the surge
in the oceans and land temperatures leading to the rise
in sea levels, plus the flooding of many lowland areas
across the world;
 The Conserve Energy Future website lists the following
challenges that the world faces today.
Overpopulation
The exhaustion of the world’s natural non-renewable
resources from oil reserves to minerals to potable water
A waste disposal catastrophe due to the excessive
amount of waste unloaded by communities in landfills
as well as in the oceans; and the dumping of the
nuclear waste.
 The Conserve Energy Future website lists the following
challenges that the world faces today.
The destruction of million-year-old ecosystems and the
loss of biodiversity that have led to the extinction of
particular species and decline in the number of others
 The Conserve Energy Future website lists the following
challenges that the world faces today.
The reduction of the oxygen and the increase in carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere because of deforestation,
resulting in the rise in ocean acidity by as much as 150
percent in the last 250 years
 The Conserve Energy Future website lists the following
challenges that the world faces today.
 The depletion of the ozone layer protecting the planet from
the sun’s deadly ultraviolet rays due to chlorofluorocarbons
in the atmosphere
 The deadly acid rain as a result of fossil fuel combustion,
toxic chemicals from erupting volcanoes, and massive
rotting vegetables filling up garbage dumps or left on the
streets
 The Conserve Energy Future website lists the following
challenges that the world faces today.
 Water pollution arising from industrial and community
waste residues seeping into underground water tables,
rivers, and sea
 Urban sprawls that continue to expand as a city turns into a
megalopolis, destroying farmlands, increasing traffic
gridlock, and making smog cloud a permanent urban
fixture
 The Conserve Energy Future website lists the following
challenges that the world faces today.
 Pandemics and other threats to public health arising from
wastes mixing with drinking water, polluted environments
that become breeding grounds for mosquitoes and disease-
carrying rodents, and pollution
 A radical alteration of food systems because of genetic
modification in food production