THE CHALLENGES OF THE MODERN CITY IN THE ERA OF MAJOR MIGRATION PROCESSES

The beginning of the new millennium is recognizable by the fact that the states, especially from the European continent, endeavor to adapt to the imposed problems associated with mass migrations. Economic poverty, wars and forced migration encourage the migration process, and cities, especially megalopolises, are their final destination. The war in Syria and the global economic crisis in 2015 spurred the European migrant crisis. In this context, the EU has failed to fully find the right solution for their distribution and integration in the new environment. We should seek for the answer in the models of multiculturalism, interculturalism and cosmopolitanism. The enormous influx of immigrants represents a threat of changing socio-cultural identities primarily to the western developed societies, where xenophobic outbursts are more frequent. Changes in the demographic composition caused by migration are most intensely felt in the urban area. In this context, each state is guided by political decisions within national interests, which often encounter difficulties by the international public. Without doubt, migration policy, as well as media coverage, contribute to this plan. Any major migration causes a cultural shock in the domicile population. The increase of the population in the city, especially when it significantly exceeds the capacities, brings with it problems in the urban area, the labor market, ecology and its pollution

THE URBAN WAY OF LIFE AND SOCIOECONOMIC DIFFERENCES IN GLOBAL SOCIETY

The Urban space is a location where the most significant social evolution is taking place under the influence of the processes of globalization. The city's analysis in the era of globalization integrates a set of issues related to urban space in the modern global city and the city in conditions of globalization. Global tendencies are re-actualizing the issue of the urban lifestyle of both the individual and the group. The focus of the paper is directed towards detecting globalization precisely in the sphere of the urban, following the changes and the functionality of the space. The urban space is a scene of stratification processes, but also a scene of interweaving different cultures, a result of multiculturalism and multi-confessionalism. On the other hand, layered affiliation leaves an extra mark and recognition. Urban living is a multidimensional phenomenon that can be perceived in many aspects. It is integrating manifestations and urban spectacles, which build a dynamically evolutionary component of space. In a word, the space is the only place in which all the positive but also the negative experiences are being felt by the individual and also by the group. Urban space is a real site for human creativity, acting and using leisure time