The Complicity and Consequential Effect of Large Scale Migration in the Originating State: A Nigeria Model

Abstract

Sub-Saharan African migration is rising steadily, sometimes even daily. Like her peers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia, Nigeria is one of the African countries that has ever dealt with a mixed migration issue. Prolonged internal displacement, human trafficking, migrant smuggling, and brain drain are indicators of this. Low levels of temporary internal displacement in Nigeria have over time given way to widespread, extensive, and long-term displacement. Currently, the majority of Nigerian migrants are known to be present in large numbers abroad as asylum seekers and refugees. Along with this sizable population, there were an estimated figure of the Nigerian refugees who were waiting to be repatriated in Cameroon, Niger, and the Chad Republic. As a result of shifting migratory patterns, the Nigerian government has risen to the task of coordinating and managing migration difficulties, even as the subject of internal displacement has taken centre stage in national development plans.