Characteristics of Cross-border Migration in Nigerian Border Communities

• Authors: Gbenga John Oladehinde

Abstracts

EN

This study examines the characteristics of cross-border migration in the border communities of Ogun State, Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was used to select 331 cross-border migrants in the study area. The analysis revealed that few employment opportunities, bad economic conditions, poverty, wage differentials, soil infertility, natural disasters, and drought were the underlying push factors predicting the need to earn better income among the migrants, whereas more job opportunities, better economic conditions, less environmental degradation, good access to land, commerce, marriage, the chance to join other family members, better income, good harvest, and soil productivity were the underlying pull factors predicting the choice of destination in Nigeria. Therefore, the study concluded that economic and environmental considerations were the push factors predicting the need to earn better income, whereas environmental, economic, and social considerations were the pull factors predicting the choice of destination in Nigeria.

Keywords

EN

cross-border migration; migrants; characteristics; push and pull factors; border communities

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Instytut Ameryk i Europy. Centrum Europejskich Studiów Regionalnych i Lokalnych (EUROREG)
• Journal: Studia Regionalne i Lokalne
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 98
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 39-52

Dates

published

2024

Contributors

author

Gbenga John Oladehinde

• Adekunle Ajasin University, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Ondo State, Nigeria

• https://orcid.org/0000000343317430

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7366/1509499549803

Biblioteka Nauki

59709524