Abstract
The twenty-first century promises to be a new age and era of migration flow, increasing pressure on western governments, and giving a new meaning to the “faces of humanity and migration.” This comes as a result of failures from some western countries undermining the right of human integrity. The current refugee crisis is a catastrophe affecting millions of families, endangering the stability of nations that are hosts to large numbers of migrants, and of the region around them. Forced migration flows which are mismanaged, as at present, create large negative political and economic externalities for the world as a whole. Concerns of advanced countries that accepting forced migrants will cause job losses or falling wages, and place an undue burden on the public purse, are largely unjustified. Although there is no perfect scheme for allocating the burden, any solution must envisage increased numbers of refugees settling in the North, and increased aid for the countries in the South with the largest numbers of refugees. This paper explores how every day hundreds of unaccountable African youth are confidently tricked into modern day slavery through irregular migration. The trend of these irregular migrations represents one of the biggest humanitarian tragedies, rendering most African youths who were intellectuals and vision holders to be hopeless and vulnerable within the scope of living as undocumented migrants, for which they constitute the greater work force of their nation.
Presenters
Lawrencia NketiaRichard Osei Bonsu
CEO/ International Project Coordinator, Admnistration, Organization for Migrants and Non Immigrants for African Education, Greater Accra, Ghana
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2020 Special Focus—Globalization and Social Movements: Familiar Patterns, New Constellations?
KEYWORDS
Immigration, Human Mobility, Cultural, Language, Migration, Humanity, Refugees, Asylum
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