The great migration: global citizens and their place in the supply-demand economy
More than one billion people cross borders each year. Parag Khanna writes on the rise of the Independent Republic of the Supply Chain - an explosion of global citizens whose identity is tied into their journey, rather than their country of origin.
In generations past, people moved. Now they circulate. Migration today is more than permanent, one-directional relocation: it is a constant flux of multidirectional flows. Taken together, there are more migrant workers, overseas expatriates, political and environmental refugees and trafficked people than ever in history. The...