ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the migration caused by economic liberalisation in the Global South, and examines the human mobility and the regional conflicts provoked by the Global North's interventions. The nation-state system is discussed as another factor behind the current migration issue. The world has pursued rapid socioeconomic liberalisation on a global scale since the 1980s, which inevitably resulted in widened inequality at various levels. It undermined the living conditions of many people in the Global South and motivated them to migrate. The current widening inequality has greatly surpassed the former disparity between north and south. It has occurred as a natural result of neoliberal policies pursued since the 1980s. Corporations, nation-states, and citizens must fiercely compete against one another to survive in this unstable structure. Global migration is not only caused by economic inequality. It also accelerated due to volatile international security situation that has worsened after 9/11 as well as due to devastating environmental problems.
