Globalisation can sound horribly impersonal when wrapped up in talk of trade flows, foreign direct investment and the emotionless calculation of financial markets. In truth, it is a human phenomenon. It is people who buy, sell and make the goods and services that flit across the world's borders. And people do a lot of flitting themselves, many of them sent abroad by their employers to find new customers or to keep distant assembly lines running.
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