Migration and Regional Integration in West Africa

This book explores the processes of migration and integration within the West African sub-region and unearths subsisting promises and failures of the ECOWAS' intent of transmuting the sub-region into a single socio-economic (and political) entity.

Autorentext

Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran is Lecturer/Researcher in Sociology, Migration, and Development Studies at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. He is Visiting Researcher at The Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Canada, and the Nordic Africa Institute, University of Uppsala, Sweden.

Inhalt

1. Why a Borderless ECOWAS? 2. Social Organization of Mobility 3. Migration Network, Determinants, and Patterns 4. The Process of Identity Integration 5. Identity Dualism and Regional Integration 6. Uncensored Space and Regional Development 7. Theoretical, Conceptual, and Methodological Frameworks for Borderless ECOWAS 8. Concluding Comments