Migrations in the contemporary world: A case of Africa
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2020-11
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Bernardinum
Abstract
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.
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migrations, push and pull factors, effects