A historical perspective of Nigerian immigrants in Europe

• Main Authors: Paul Obi-Ani, Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani, Mathias Chukwudi Isiani
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020-01-01
• Series: Cogent Arts & Humanities
• Subjects: nigeria; globalization; immigrants; europe; refugees; industrialization; economy; fence
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2020.1846262

The world is gradually shrinking that at the press of a button events happening in a far-flung part of the earth could be followed live via a cable network. Globalization or capitalist penetration of every economy is a new phenomenon. Industrialized nations of the West are growing richer and having access to natural resources of the third world. Most of the third world countries are experiencing a harsh economic turn. World trade organization (WTO) continues to harp on the need for free trade which is beneficial to the developed countries. Yet developed Western countries mount an impenetrable fortress to ward off immigrants from their paradise. Nigerian immigrants’ device different strategies to scale the protected Western fence at great cost. Employing newspaper, magazine reports, and other extant secondary materials as well as primary data such as oral interviews of those in the business of securing visas in Nigeria and eyewitness account of repatriated migrants, the paper attempts an analysis of this phenomenon. Also, Ernest Ravestin’s Push-Pull theory of migration is used to interrogate this quest to emigrate.