Abstract
Postcolonial and decolonial approaches have opened fruitful conceptual and theoretical notions such as entangled (im)mobilities, connected histories and sociologies, and multidirectional memories. The Sub-Saharan African continent each day loses hundreds of unaccountable youth to irregular migration, not as a result of seeking refuge, but moving from impoverished political economy. Migration is a universal phenomenon but the trend of these irregular migration represents one of the biggest humanitarian tragedies, rendering most African youths who were intellects and vision holders to be hopeless within the scope living as undocumented migrants for which they constitute the greater workforce of their nation. Twenty-first (21st) century promises to be a new age of migration. African migrants will risk certain death to reach the West, their dreamland of greener pastures ‘the land of Paradise’, thirty percent (30%) will be confronted with death while seventy percent (70%) do make it but are soon confronted with shattered dreams. This paper identifies the most important factors that contribute to the amplified migration among African youths.
Presenters
Richard Osei BonsuCEO/ International Project Coordinator, Admnistration, Organization for Migrants and Non Immigrants for African Education, Greater Accra, Ghana
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2024 Special Focus—The World on the Move: Understanding Migration in a New Global Age
KEYWORDS
Migration,Refugee,Asylum,Desert,immigration
