STOPPING AFRICAN MIGRATION INTO EUROPE: A POSSIBILITY OR A HOAX

Adekola Adeagbo and Olumide Omodunbi
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Adekola Adeagbo: 1Department of Culture and Social Sciences, University of Osnabrueck, Germany, Phone: +4917683082990, Postal: 1Department of Culture and Social Sciences, University of Osnabrueck, Germany, Phone: +4917683082990
Olumide Omodunbi: 2Department of Political Sciences, Osun State University, Osogbo Phone: +2347034933360, Postal: 2Department of Political Sciences, Osun State University, Osogbo, Phone: +2347034933360,

Annals of Spiru Haret University, Economic Series, 2021, vol. 21, issue 1, 167-177

Abstract: In August 2018, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel embarked on a trip to three African countries (Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal) to discuss economic ties and partnership with the main aim to limit, if not stop the over-whelming migration of citizens from Africa. The trip has raised some hopes as well as question towards what it seeks to achieve and this paper tries to investigate the prospects using historical and theoretical approaches to understand why people migrate and as well the hold of government on its people if at all such partnership will yield positive results. Using Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and the social capital theory, this paper concludes that the journey through such partnership is a rough one if not a dead-end unless some structural changes are made in the process of governance in the aforementioned countries

Keywords: Africa; migration; European partnership; government; social capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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