This book explores the possible (actual, potential and imagined) future security threats migration from Nigeria could pose to Europe, the United States of America, Canada and to some extent Australia. The negative consequences of terrorism, resource curse, extreme poverty, bad governance and illiteracy are highly likely to compound the already existing migration (both legal and illegal migration) from Nigeria to Europe. Given the current nationalist and populist tendencies in the United States of America and many parts of Europe, which have amplified the securitization of migration, the authors argue that the continuous high influx of legal and illegal migrants from Africa is a potential global security case.
Author(s): Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere, John Sodiq Sanni
Series: St Antony's Series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 138
City: Cham
Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 When Migration is Perceived as a Security Threat
1.2 Migrants from the World’s Most Populous Black Country
1.3 The Structure of Our Analysis
Notes
Bibliography
2 The Nexus Between Nigerian Migrants and the Future of Global Security
2.1 Causal and Constitutive Explanations
2.2 The Question of Securitisation
2.3 The Problem of Populism
Bibliography
3 Population Growth and Instability
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Population Growth
3.3 Economic, Social and Political Instability
3.4 Linguistic Disparity and Population Growth
3.5 Language and Factors of Migration
3.6 Conclusion
Bibliography
4 The Burden of Religion and the Fear of Islam
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Religion
4.3 The Burden of Religion
4.4 The Fear of Radical Islam
4.5 Conclusion
Bibliography
5 The Future of Global Security
5.1 The Future of Global Politics
5.2 Contextual Analysis of the Behaviour of States in Global Politics
Explanatory Theory
Contextual International Politics (Part 1)
Contextual International Politics (Part 2)
Bibliography
6 Mitigating Potential Global Insecurity
6.1 Holistically Mitigating Potential Global Insecurity
6.2 What Nigeria Needs to Do
Migration and Underdevelopment
The Unnoticed ‘Double-Neglect’ Negative Consequences of Migration
Migration as a Contributory Factor to Underdevelopment
The Migration and Remittances Problem: Equilibrium as the Solution
A Recapitulation
6.3 What Europe and North America Need to Do
Bibliography
7 Conclusion
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Aristotelian Syllogism
7.3 The Premises
7.4 The Future of Global Security
7.5 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
