In this case, it would seem that the government still has power over people and the policies they put in place, which suggests that we have not progressed towards a globalized world. The government however faces many problems, for example the issue of immigration has become a widely recognized problem in the UK. In fact, the growth of immigration can be seen as raising questions of citizenship and seems to have polluted nation states. As noted on worldmapper.org, the regions receiving the highest net immigration are North America, Western Europe, and the Middle East. Statistical data suggests that these three regions alone account for 75.9% of global net immigration, with the United States receiving just over 37% of the global total. Skeptics would support the idea that we do not live in a global world, because they believe that we do not have a global economy, but an international economy divided into three: Asia, Europe and North America . The international economy proposed by skeptics is primarily controlled by the governments of these areas, which are still powerful, and the policies they choose to implement revolve around