Thanks to Jorge @ Catenary for rescuing the Worldmapper from the archive of “lost & found” items. While the whole set of maps sheds a brilliant view of our real world, the following two maps provide a visual representation to the metaphor “the South has set itself up in the very heart of the North!” coined by Marco @ Insurgelicious and mentioned in the previous post misunderstanding globalization.
Just take a look at how the countries in the Northern hemisphere are bloated as a result of the net immigration:
while the countries in the Southern hemisphere are desperately loosing their population as a result of the net emigration:
I know we have frequent visitors from countries such as India, Mexico, China, Singapore, Argentina, South Africa, Pakistan, Philippines, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, El Salvador & Brazil. If you care to leave a comment on how emigration from these countries to the North is perceived, I’m sure we’ll find some recurring themes.
[...] According to the International Migration report from the United Nations’ Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, in 2006 there were an estimated 190,634,000 immigrants around the world. That is close to 3% of the world population. As discussed in the south in the hearth of the north, over 61% are settled in the more developed countries. [...]