The same capitalist economic processes that create migrants in periphery
regions simultaneously attract them to developed countries.
Although some people displaced by the process of market penetration move to cities, leading to
the urbanization of developing societies, inevitably many are drawn abroad because globalization creates material and ideological links to the places when capital originates.
The foreign investment that drives economic globalization managed from a small number of global cities, whose structural characteristic create a strong demand for immigrant labor.