Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Introduction Globalisation is today particularly involving migration issues both for political reasons and economic options. Migration is nevertheless not without consequences for the sending, like the receiving areas. The major displacement of people since the WWII is changing the way of life of Western countries, impoverishing them, without enriching the poor areas of origin. Many sure facts of the previous years of economic boom, gained with strong political battles, are vanishing, like assured jobs, increasing budgets, public security and effcient public services. Intangible personal and social aspects are also menaced, like respect for the persons, social cohesion, local identity and cultural pride of traditions. Social change is a natural process, but it has to evolve in a systematic and organized way. The melting pot of today is, at the opposite, revolving societies in a ground-breaking way, shocking stabilized organizations and turning upside down the future development of all the civilizations, instead of producing innovation. 1 Institutions and States are researching solutions, but the phenomenon is so rapid that only provisional and unsatisfactory answers are found. Globalisation and immigration In this work we intend to examine how the processes of globalization and immigration affect the social order and the sense of historical identity of local communities. The theme has largely been discussed. 2–8 but we examine here a new case with few scientifc references, since it is, for the moment, only a popular discussed situation. The increasing interest in international migration and the African dimensions of that migration in Europe has received considerable attention by scholar’s recently. 9 Italy might offer useful insight into the social and economic dimensions of irregular African migrants working in the city’s underground economy. 10 The debate on migrations encompasses geographical determinants, since migrants can impact different local conditions, which could be or not be the basis of equity and integration. Certainly a forced imposition of new inhabitants is absorbed with great diffculties, when the number of newcomers is so high. 8 Fan 11 debates on labour immigration which involves concerns over ethnic interactions and tensions, and security issues of illegal immigration and border control. He arguments on migration having demographic, economic, and social impacts on both sending and receiving areas. From our part, we can entirely rely on the words of Claudia Manenti 12 “The idea of sustainability is based on the need to preserve the natural resources for the future generations. If it is valid for environmental resources, it should also be applied to the maintenance of place identity which plays a direct key role in shaping both individual and community identity. When the typical features of places are preserved, their peculiarity is highlighted, as well as the relationship between the human beings and the living environment. Such a heritage, in relation to the place features, can be an important life anchor for future generations as a part of history and tradition, especially now, when relationships are characterized by high mobility and virtualization.” The place dimension emphasizes the place characteristics of attachment, including spatial level, specifcity, and the prominence of social or physical elements. 13 Place attachment concept and defnitions are synthesized by Scannell & Gifford 13 into a three-dimensional organizing framework: person–process–place. First: the attachment is based on individually and collectively meanings; the second dimension is the psychological process: how, affects, cognition, and behaviour are manifested in the attachment. The third dimension includes place characteristics: attachment to, and nature of a place. The sense of space Globalization could be a good thing, but may also be a global turmoil. Globalization is based on free movements of people, money and things, but freedom has to be regulated and organized, since freedom, without borders, even virtual ones, may be transformed into war, because of the huge number of people on the Earth. Global connection needs rules, orders and better policies or a constructed net. In social terms, globalization has been converted today into irregular migration fows, and, in economic terms, every political unity, tries to escape the crisis with contingent solutions. Probably we can speak about a global war, since fundamentalist Muslim bring terrorism all around the world, and poor escaping wars and poverty bring social disruption also all around the world. Today the Muslim extremism is following its goal of a global war against infdels. The UN High Commissioner, António Guterres, recognizes this as an “age of unprecedented mass displacement”. Sociol Int J. 2018;2(6):445‒450. 445 © 2018 Galvani. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and build upon your work non-commercially. Tale of two cities and two continents Volume 2 Issue 6 - 2018 Adriana Galvani Department of Socio-Economic Sciences, University of Mediterranea, Italy Correspondence: Adriana Galvani, Department of Socio- Economic Sciences, University of Mediterranea, Nola, Italy, Email adriena.galvani@live.com Received: January 28, 2018 | Published: November 09, 2018 Abstract In this work, globalisation and immigration are discussed. One case is examined for its global value of impact of civilisations. Immigration from Africa is a daily concern for every citizen living around the Mediterranean Sea. Immigrants are distributed by governments in all big and small cities, but the inclusion process is too long to be visible, so contrasts and even hate between residents and refugees are diffused emotions. Refugees don’t work, they are maintained by EU, meanwhile citizens are affording an unending crisis with unemployment, decrease of revenues and, at the same time, increase of prices. The two cities are Ferrara in Italy and Lagos in Nigeria; the first one, the untroubled cultural UNESCO heritage, the second, the most dangerous city of the world. Keywords: globalisation, immigration, unemployment, political, economic, vanishing Sociology International Journal Research Article Open Access