INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN AFRICA
A STUDY OF NIGERIA, 2010-2022
Keywords:
International Migration, Poverty Reduction, Job Opportunities, Cultural DiversityAbstract
This study interrogates the nexus between International Migration and Poverty Reduction in Africa with a focus in Nigeria. The theoretical framework that anchored the study is the Pull and Push Migration theory propounded by Ravenstein in the year 1885. The study employed longitudinal survey research design and time series analysis to carry out its investigation. In the course of the discourse, the findings show that: one of the Impacts of International Migration is that, there will be enough workers who will work for low wages, there will be an increase of cultural diversity, and the skills gap will be filled, that is to say that, the immigrant must have arrived with various kinds of skill which will help to develop the destination country. Arising from the above findings the researcher made the following recommendations: Provision of job opportunities to the Nigeria youths to curb youth incessant international migration; and provision of standard hospitals by the Nigerian Government; therefore making our young medical personnel to find the country worth staying in.
