(Im)Migration Struggles

Capitalist globalization has wrecked the lives of the overwhelming majority of the Earth’s population. Neo-liberal policies over the past 30 years have only accelerated this misery, leading to the crisis in 2008. On a global scale, neo-liberal policies and trade agreements have led to the creation of export processing zones in the global south and entrenched privatization and the destruction of labour laws have seen manufacturing jobs shift from the global north to the global south. This shift in the name of seeking greater profits is ruining domestic economies and forcing millions to migrate to the global north in search of a better future.

Les pays du G20 comptent pour environ les 2/3 de la population globale, mais il y a une énorme différence entre les standards de vie des pays riches et ceux des pays pauvres.

Au cours de la dernière décennie, environ 180 millions de personnes (presque 3% de la population mondiale) ont été forcées à migrer, et vivent à l’extérieur de leur pays de naissance.

G20 countries account for almost 2/3 of the global population, but there is an enormous difference in living standards between the rich and the poor nations.

Over the last decade, an estimated 180 million people (almost 3% of the world’s population) have been forced into migration, and are living outside of their birth country.

Migration is caused by capitalist disaster; political conflict and war; ecological destruction; poverty; and ethnic, religious and gender persecution.