modern migration consists of a dramatic paradox. even though a lot of what's thought of overseas or transnational migration at the present time transforms humans of quite a lot of social standings within the emigration nations into employees on the backside social and fiscal ranks of the immigration nations, thousands of people around the globe search emigrate the world over. overseas Migration, Social Demotion, and Imagined development argues that this paradox can't be defined for so long as universal preconceptions approximately immigrants’ fiscal betterment thwart even wondering why people who aren't threatened by means of famine or battle willingly pursue their demotion in another country. spotting immigrants’ decline as such, this booklet proposes viewing modern migration as socioglobal mobility. Revolving round an ethnographic research of the Albanian 'emigration' in Greece, foreign Migration, Social Demotion, and Imagined development unearths that imaginaries of the realm as a social hierarchy may lie on the roots of a lot of the modern overseas migration. As would-be emigrants understand varied nations by way of certain social stations in a world order, they get to the bottom of to place up with quite a few social and fabric deprivations within the wish of advancing the world over. Immigrants are usually regarded as extraterrestrial beings of their de facto domestic societies, in spite of the fact that, and that makes actual development all yet very unlikely. Erind Pajo is Assistant Researcher in Anthropology and Lecturer in Social Sciences on the collage of California, Irvine.