Return migration and the challenges of diasporic reintegration in Nigeria
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2022-01-31
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Journals Third World Quarterly
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Nigeria is among the countries in Africa with the largest emigrant population as well as an impressive pool
of annual remittances. Despite the importance of remittances in the matrix of national development, they
are no substitute for the expertise and skills needed to drive the various sectors of the economy. Thus,
since 1999, successive Nigerian governments have emphasised return migration as an important strategy
to tream its diaspora into national development. In this vein, diverse policy efforts hu _been initiated to
ensure its actualisation. The paper interrogates the continued urrency and feasibility of return migration in the face of transnationalism and
iasporic integration dilemmas. The paper uses qualitative data generated from rimary
and secondary sources to critically examine Nigeria's migration architecture.finds that
return migration is fraught with several integration dilemmas for eturnees as they are
confronted with adjustment crises on return. The paper ontends that the transnational
character of the Nigerian diaspora necessitates the doption of policy options that
recognise the universality of their contributions and nus do not require their relocation
to the country.
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Return migration diaspora engagement diasporic integration dilemmas remittances ransnationalism Nigeria