The geography of contemporary globalization is related closely to the history of colonialism and imperialism even if this is not usually made explicit in globalization theory colonialism created links between various societies across the world that encouraged some people to leave their original countries to work in another country. Globalization theories have, by and large, neglected race and ethnicity in their accounts of the makinh of the new global order. Another reason for individuals to migrate is to make more money. Incomes in developed countries are far higher than in developing countries.