Advances in Applied Sociology, 2025, 15(4), 264-277 https://www.scirp.org/journal/aasoci ISSN Online: 2165-4336 ISSN Print: 2165-4328 DOI: 10.4236/aasoci.2025.154014 Apr. 27, 2025 264 Advances in Applied Sociology Did Migration and Globalization Meet Sustainable Development Goals: A Theoretical Analysis Amira Yousif Badri 1,2 1 Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy 2 International Institute of Education (IIE), New York, USA Abstract The migration process, both voluntary and involuntary along human history has great implications in human well-being and development process. Many writers ex- plained the reasons and push-pull drives of human movements and the conse- quences that reflect on changes in the social, demographic structures and in the eco- nomic and political institutions. The interconnections between human mobility and the development process during the last two Centuries are the milestone for build- ing international relations between the nations, and on the other hand, in the evo- lution of theories for migration and development studies. This article has been drafted to give a new analytical look at development and migration approaches in the last century and to date. The emphasis is to show the progress of social, demo- graphic transformation and human mobility in the last fifty years that influenced the socioeconomic structure and migration policies. The paper highlights the in- terrelationship between globalization and migration as two controversial processes for human advancement, and the outcomes brought miserable conditions of ine- quality and poverty. Finally, the paper suggested that sustainable development goals, particularly goal 8, decent work (SDG8), is directly correlated with globali- zation and its consequences. The paper concluded that migration is a crucial ele- ment for the success of globalization, while indecent work for migrant workers is traced as a persisting phenomenon of inequality and poverty in the 21st century. Keywords Globalization, Migration, Decent Work, Sustainable Development Goal 1. Introduction It seems difficult to separate the sociological and economic theories from the de- How to cite this paper: Badri, A. Y. (2025). Did Migration and Globalization Meet Sus- tainable Development Goals: A Theoretical Analysis. Advances in Applied Sociology, 15, 264-277. https://doi.org/10.4236/aasoci.2025.154014 Received: February 16, 2025 Accepted: April 24, 2025 Published: April 27, 2025 Copyright © 2025 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access