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Title:The Political Economy of Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author:Akokpari, John K.ISNI
Year:1999
Periodical:African Sociological Review
Volume:3
Issue:1
Pages:75-93
Language:English
Geographic terms:Subsaharan Africa
Africa
Subjects:politics
refugees
migration
economic recession
economic policy
Economics and Trade
Politics and Government
Urbanization and Migration
Labor and Employment
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/24487343
Abstract:While the causes of Africa's refugee crisis may seem complex, deeper analysis reduces these to the prevalence of conflicts, environmental degradation, and the hostility of the global economy. The postcolonial African State has failed to distribute its meagre political and economic resources fairly among diverse, competing constituencies, and has likewise failed to promote fair competition for these resources. State partisanship has heightened social tensions, and has led to conflicts and wars, which inevitably have displaced people or induced refugees and migration. The State has also failed to establish credible environmental regimes, and although environmental factors have produced fewer emigrants and refugees than conflicts, nonetheless the influence of ecological pressures on population displacements and demographic changes cannot be underestimated. Added to this are the forces and contradictions unleashed by the global economy - marginalization, debt, and structural adjustment -, which breed conditions for conflicts and economic adversity. And while heavily devastated by the international economy, sub-Saharan Africa has to take on the onerous task of managing the refugee crisis as well. Bibliogr.
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