Globalization is the most talked-about topic in the last decade and in this decade as well among the trade analysts. It has many more meaning in many more areas.
The Actual meaning is something different from the globalization in practice. The free trade barriers, abolishing import duties are its meaning at one hand and on the other hand, it cannot tolerate the immigration of workers.
Gaurav Sabnis has written a comprehensible post on the actual meaning of the word Globalization and about its practice by the different countries. In the post, Immigration - The Acid Test of Globalization , he writes about the free trade, the transfer of goods vs the transfer of services.
He writes as, the current restrictions on immigration are similar to the restrictions placed by socialist countries on goods trade. These restrictions are non-sustainable. If the restrictions were only morally wrong, they might have sustained. But restrictions on free trade have a practical impact. They undermine your economy, and most of your people are worse off.
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According to me, you miss some of the points of globalization, one of them being the transfer of means. For example, Mexicans come here because there is work that no one else will want to do because it is not well - paid. For their standards, the money they make however a good amount because they can send some of them home. However, these people spend in the States which makes the economy grow. Everybody knows that this country and its power is based on immigration. I just want to say that immigration in the US does not pose such a huge problem in order to look at globalization as something negative.