Abstract
Every day, hundreds of unaccountable African educated and highly skilled youth migrates in search of greener pastures whiles the middle class educated confidently risk all to death through the desert and sea at the peril of their lives. International migration is an ever-growing phenomenon that has important development implications for both sending and receiving countries. This paper summarizes incipient discussions on the impacts of migration on climate change, democratic values, demographics, national identity, and security. The trend of these irregular migration represents one of the biggest humanitarian tragedy, rendering most African youths who were intellects and vision holders to be hopeless and vulnerable living within the scope as undocumented migrants for which they constitute the greater work force of their nation. The twenty-first century promises to be a new age of migration, African migrants will risk all to reach Europe, their dreamland of greener pastures ‘the land of Paradise’. Majority of these youths who are between 19-42 years passes through mentally, physiological, and emotional trauma before been forced to return to their country of origin. Whiles 35% of the returnee re-migrates. All these efforts have contributed to pushing back the boundaries of knowledge on a long-neglected topic. They have also created bridges between academic and political spheres and, in so doing, have worked to promote the image of migrants as potential development actors and not just as victims or threats.
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Richard Osei BonsuCEO/ International Project Coordinator, Admnistration, Organization for Migrants and Non Immigrants for African Education, Greater Accra, Ghana
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Migrants,asylum,refugees,border,immigration
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