Paper short abstract:

The rise of radical Islam after the dissipation of the socialist world has brought forth new challenges to the post-cold war era. Internal conflicts in Muslim dominated countries has impacted substantially on the freer movement of people throughout the world.

Paper long abstract:

Samuel's Huntington's prediction in his classical account of early twenty-first politics that the rise of radical Islam will replace the dynamics of the cold-war confrontations between socialist and capitalist countries was prophetic. But it did not anticipate the nature of the rivalry between internally based groups in Middle-Eastern countries that would raise the ire of Vladimir Putin's leadership of a seemingly complacent Russia. Russia's aerial confrontation against ISIS has had a somewhat overpowering image over the American engagement in the Middle East. And neither did it anticipate the uncertainties and failures of European countries attempts to unify and present itself as a formidable block to the rest of the world. "Brexit" in the UK and Donald Trump's election in the USA, jointly presents a new era in international migration patterns. "Building defenses against Islamic fundamentalism, saving jobs and protecting social welfare for local citizens against foreign migrants" is the contemporary catch-phrase in the developed world. This paper will present an historical overview of migration in the second half of the 20th century and newer possibilities for viewing the inhibitive phenomenon around this issue as a corollary of early 21st century politics.