today, back to migration-issues and a few words here to put things in perspective linked to yesterdays posting.

The most striking features of globalization are growth of cross-border flows of various kinds, including investment, trade, cultural products, ideas and people, and the profileration of transnational networks with codes of control in multiple locations. At its core, globalization results in increased transnationalism: behaviour or institutions which simultaneseously affect more than one state. The terrorist attack on 9.11 2001 in fact constituted transnational political behaviour, as those perpretrating were aliens engaging in violence against mainly civilian targets in order to achieve a political goal. Al-Qaida can be seen as an extremely effective transnational network, with multiple codes of control.

from "The age of migration" by Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller