ABSTRACT
This article examines emerging trends and challenges in transnational migration and lifelong learning. It reveals that globalisation and migration are inextricably intertwined. Where migration is a response to globalisation, globalisation accelerates migration. One of the new world disorders created by globalisation is mass migration, which provides a flexible workforce to be deployed at the discretion of global capital. As a result of increasing migration, many countries are becoming increasingly ethnoculturally diverse. In the process of adapting to new societies, many migrants encounter a number of barriers, including lack of access to social services and lifelong learning programmes, unemployment and underemployment, devaluation and denigration of their prior learning and work experience, poor economic performance and downward social mobility. Unfortunately, lifelong learning has failed to integrate cultural difference and diversity into educational environments. Rather than facilitating immigrants’ adaptation, lifelong learning has become a vehicle for assimilating immigrants into the dominant norms and values of the host society.
