Policy Challenges In Nigeria-South Africa Migration In The 21st Century

Abstract

This work looks at the relationship in the Nigeria-South Africa migration

policies as developing countries in the processes of human migration and

development. The work offers a critical analysis of the concept of Nigeria-

South Africa migration in the 21st century and draws attention to the

fundamental problems of Nigeria-South Africa migration. The work then

gives a broad overview of the patterns of migration policies in the

developing countries of Nigeria and South Africa. It outlines some of the

economic, social and political drivers of migration within Nigeria and South

Africa as a country. The work highlights on the factors that push and pull the

people of Nigeria and south Africa to migrate, as a major challenges in the

Nigeria-south Africa migration. The study has two main objectives viz: (1)

to examine if Nigeria-south Africa migration policy is favourable to

Nigerian migration relations to south Africa. (2) to explain if Nigeria

migrants is a result of poor policy migration implementation. Maxist theory

of development is the theoretical framework considered most appropriate.

Being a qualitative descriptive research, data were collected through

secondary resources such as books, journals, internet materials, etc. the

findings shows that scholars have written on Nigeria-south Africa migration

but in isolation, in other words, they have not been able to integrate the

migration policy of Nigeria and south Africa. Among other things therefore,

the study recommends sustainable and viable migration policy

implementation.

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