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Rethinking the Nigerian youth emigration surge: An invitation to patriotism-nurturing emigration

Akinrinola, Ademola A.

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Title
Rethinking the Nigerian youth emigration surge: An invitation to patriotism-nurturing emigration
Author(s)
Akinrinola, Ademola A.
Issue Date
2021-12
Keyword(s)
  • Nigerian youth
  • Emigration
  • Patriotism
  • African diaspora
  • Nigeria
  • Economic development
Geographic Coverage
  • Nigeria
  • Nigerian Diaspora
Abstract
Perhaps more than any time in recent history, the number of talented, young Nigerians leaving the country in search of better life prospects is preponderantly at its apogee. “The proportion of youth planning to leave Nigeria permanently increased from 36 percent in 2014 to 52 percent in 2018… [while] the number of international migrants from Nigeria…increased from around 450,000 in 1990 to 1.4 million in 2019” (Adhikari, Clemens, Dempster, & Ekeator, 2021, July 19). From the Canadian Federal Skilled Worker’s Program, the various U.S. green card pathways, to studying abroad in Asia, Australia, Europe and South Africa, Nigerian youths seek myriad of ways—sometimes casting caution to the wind—to rescue their future from the limitation-perpetuating vicissitudes that plague the youth demography in contemporary Nigeria.
ISSN
2465-7050
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Ademola Alabi Akinrinola

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