ABSTRACT
This chapter recognises the importance of roots and refutes the overly simplistic claims that homogenising global culture is subsuming or eliminating less resilient cultures. Globalization is a word frequently used as a weapon by advocates and dissenters in response to the seemingly omnipotent and omnipresent process of global integration. Picking up issues such as asylum, deportation, refuge, escapism and travel, the material maps the re-emergence of the human content in international relations and links it to capitalism. The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarians, nations into civilisation. In the series of Reith lectures broadcast on the BBC, Anthony Giddens reiterates the view that globalization is political, technological and cultural, as well as economic. In shifting from one to many homes, increasing numbers of people are experiencing and exchanging global stories.
