TY  - JOUR
AB  - In recent years, Nigeria has been quietly expelling more and more immigrants from Niger, Mali, Chad and Cameroon. These foreigners – migrant workers or small traders – face the reinforcement of migration control and the blind fight of the government against Boko Haram. Despite its political instability, Nigeria remains a major immigration destination in West Africa. In this article, I analyze the “undocumented” expulsion of aliens in 1983, officially three million people. I argue that the expulsion was due to the economic crisis but also to a nationalist revenge against Ghana and a political calculation of President Shagari. This implies the exclusion of foreigners from the national labour market and the weakening of the supposed electoral base of his opponents.
DA  - 2016-04-04
DO  - 10.4119/ijcv-3066
LA  - eng
M2  - 25
PY  - 2016-04-04
SN  - 1864-1385
SP  - 25-38
T2  - International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV)
TI  - A Reappraisal of the Expulsion of Illegal Immigrants from Nigeria in 1983
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4119/ijcv-3066
Y2  - 2024-11-22T08:45:53
ER  -