Understanding Diversity and Inclusion in the Context of Fractured Globalization

The debate about competing approaches to managing diversity is taking place in the context of fractured globalization, with macro factors (e.g., economics) pulling toward a global direction and micro factors (e.g., psychological needs) pulling us back to the local level. Advanced transportation and communications systems have resulted in the rapid movement of large populations of immigrants and refugees moving across national and regional borders. The result is that the newcomers experience sudden contact with host populations. Sudden contact raises the serious threat of decline for some groups, as the research on ‘language death’ demonstrates. Perceived outgroup threat has led to the rise of ethnocentric and extremist nationalism, associated with populist movements and support for strongman authoritarian leadership.