Migration, Racism and Conflict : An Analysis from the Perspective of Globalisation

The central purpose of the paper is to explain the unleashing of racial discrimination and onslaught of racial violence on the migrated people in the context of Globalisation. Globalisation essentially means unification of the whole world economically, politically and socially; thus converting it into a global village where people living in two different poles become neighbours. The culture conflict among the migrated people has given a new meaning to the racism. The first part of the article gives a historical overview of the worldwide migration of people from the underdeveloped and developing nations to the developed nations in search of better living or to avoid conflicts in their homeland. The second part of the article tries to explain reason behind the rise of xenophobic structural racism in relation to migration and explain the racial discriminations in the light of “Structural racism” and “private discriminations” specially in the context of the 9/11 incident in America. The third part of the article tries to analyse the case of recent racial attacks on Indians in Australia from the perspective of globalisation. The article concludes that the globalisation process and associated migration has proved to be an essential tool in promoting racism in this 21st century rather than creating a friendly, multicultural society which is tolerant towards people from various cultures, races and religions