Markets and culture in principle do not respect the gravity of territory.

"If space becomes irrelevant for the flow of capital or information, the territorial state becomes irrelevant too. This is the meaning of globalization in relation to the state: the state, immobile and fixed to a territory, is incapacitated to control hypermobile, deterritorialized economic and cultural flows. The underlying assumption is that in the past economic and cultural transactions had been territorially fixed, and thus controlled by the state. This is a most problematic assumption, because capitalist markets are inherently globalizing and decoupled from territory, while cultural innovations, from the cognitive invention of advanced mathematics in ancient Egypt to the moral invention of universal human rights in the European Enlightenment, had never been limited to their place of birth. Markets and culture in principle do not respect the gravity of territory."

Christian Joppke: Immigration Challenges the Nation-State, p 12