In this case, it would appear that the government still has power over people and the policies they introduce, suggesting that we have not progressed towards a global world. The government, however, faces many issues, for example the immigration issue has become a widely recognized issue in the UK. The growth of immigration may indeed be seen to raise questions of citizenship and may appear to have polluted nation states. As stated on worldmapper.org, the regions receiving the highest net immigration are North America, Western Europe, and the Middle East. Statistical evidence suggests that these three areas alone account for 75.9% of the world's net immigration, with the United States receiving just over 37% of the world's total. Skeptics would support the idea that we do not live in a global world, as they believe that we do not have a global economy, but an international economy divided into three: Asia, Europe and North America. The international economy proposed by the skeptics is mainly controlled by the governments of these areas, which are still powerful, and the policies they choose to implement revolve around