Globalization Triumphs in Russia

Globalization Triumphs in Russia

By: Erreh Svaia

Caprine Dispersion

Just a couple of years ago the issue of immigration was at the center of discussions in Europe, in France, the so-called National Front in charge of the Le Pen seemed to impose itself as a xenophobic force in search of boosting nationalist and anti-political sentiment of integration of the European Union, the triumph of the liberal Emmanuel Macron gave a necessary breath to liberalism and internationalism that seemed to succumb to nationalist events such as the Brexit and the rise of the right-wing rulers in the countries identified as the "visegrad" .

The process of creating a new identity in France has been complicated, punctuated by episodes of racism and terrorist violence, augmented by radical phenomena such as the rise of the now depleted Islamic State, the triumph of the French national soccer team in the Russian World Cup, It seems to become a sign of the rise of a new identity in this country, integrating strongly migrants from the once colonies of this country, migrants from Cameroon, Algeria, the Congo, Mali and Senegal who undoubtedly have reinforced in an important way the soccer squad that enjoys in the last decades a remarkable hegemony between the best teams in the world.

More significant is the triumph of France against a representative squad of Croatia that has shown a lot of heart on the court, but its exacerbated nationalism resulting from a historic process of "Balkanization", or internal divisionism within a previously integrated unit, with a marked origin in the Yugoslavia of the enormous Tito, united with blood and fire and that will propitiate a cruel war between its components when the authoritarian regime that united them artificially fell, it is significant to see a racially integrated squad, to impose itself before a racially segregated one, all this in the bosom of a conservative Russia that seems to seek to impose as a hegemonic current, nationalism, and abate the advance of globalization, migration and the creation of new identities resulting from racial integration.

It will be difficult to see this in a country like the United States of America, with a racist tradition that has curbed part of this integration and progress, omnipresent in several states of that country, while in Mexico it seems to be a curious process to consider to migrants from Central and South America who seek to cross the country to reach the US, the consideration of creating a border patrol, not to restrict entry to the southern states of the country, and its location in the northern states would seem to speak of a strategy of containment and a possible integration of migrants in the dynamic economy of the country, which could bring some changes to be observed in the social life of Mexico.

For now, migration and globalization seem to have triumphed before nationalism, xenophobia and "balkanization".