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Migrations in the contemporary world: A case of Africa
(Bernardinum, 2020-11) Myeya, Helena E; Maciej, Zabek
Nowadays, migrations have become one of the greatest phenomena of strategic importance due to their cultural, social and economic impact nearly all over the world. It also results from the mass nature of this phenomenon, i.e. the fact that more and more people are changing their place of residence in search of work, better life or asylum. History of the African continent, even in the pre-colonial times, was largely shaped by mass migrations. In East Africa, for centuries the mobility of people was dominated by migrations of pastoral and agricultural Nilotic people and agricultural Bantu people. Moreover, the slave trade had also a great impact on the forced displacement of people, especially in the 19th century. However, over the last three decades, migration patterns and trends in the whole Africa have significantly changed as a result of global flows of labour force, market and socio-political transformations. Climate perturbations, natural disasters, wars, political and economic crises have even further affected African countries in a destabilising way, generating also a significant number of refugees or generally speaking forced migrants within and outside the continent.