Overview
- Questions the securitization of migration as 'reductionist' as it reduces migration to merely a problem of security
- Analyses data from histories, archival documents, interview transcripts and surveys in Washington DC, London and Abuja
- Relies on a mixed methods approach
Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)
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About this book
This book explores the possible (actual, potential and imagined) future security threats migration from Nigeria could pose to Europe, the United States of America, Canada and to some extent Australia. The negative consequences of terrorism, resource curse, extreme poverty, bad governance and illiteracy are highly likely to compound the already existing migration (both legal and illegal migration) from Nigeria to Europe. Given the current nationalist and populist tendencies in the United States of America and many parts of Europe, which have amplified the securitization of migration, the authors argue that the continuous high influx of legal and illegal migrants from Africa is a potential global security case.
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About the authors
Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere is Cmelikova Visiting International Scholar at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, USA. He was Senior Member of St Antony’s College, and Academic Visitor at the African Studies Centre, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford, UK.
John Sodiq Sanni is Lecturer at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His research areas include African political philosophy, African philosophy, migration studies, conflict studies, religion and politics, and contemporary philosophy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Migration from Nigeria and the Future of Global Security
Authors: Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere, John Sodiq Sanni
Series Title: St Antony's Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03906-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-03905-8Published: 23 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-03908-9Published: 23 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-03906-5Published: 22 July 2022
Series ISSN: 2633-5964
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 135
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Security Studies, African Politics, Political Science, Public Policy