IRREGULAR MIGRATIONS AND HUMAN SECURITY IN POST-COLONIAL AFRICA

ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

This paper interrogates the relationship between irregular migration and human security in Africa. Migration is a component of human behavioural pattern precipitated by certain endogenous and exogenous factors. Though it is a phenomenon that has existed in the past, present-day post-colonial Africa is saddled with a motley of challenges The study employs secondary research and the constructivism and theory of geopolitics. It is the positions of this paper that migration is a product of both pull and push factors. In the final analysis the paper recommends among other things the need for good governance in Africa so as to reduce the rate of irregular migrations which exposes migrants to all sorts of security challenges.