Migration and Employment Policy and Their Impact on Social Integration: Evidence From Nigeria

Abstract

Scholars have long sought answers for the socio-economic and political discomfort of immigrants. Migrants became underclass and exploited in their new environment. In a field survey conducted in Ondo State, Nigeria, the study examined the ontological submissions about immigrants’ plight for employment and the host community’s potentials at tapping high skills available among the migrants. The study anchored on Talcott Parson’s AGIL- Social System Theory of societal survival, most especially its functional prerequisites, notably adaptation, goal, integration and pattern maintenance. The overall finding emerging from the study is that social integration links positively to migrants’ acquired work ethics, acceptance into formal workforce, and socio-communal interactions. Consequently, standardised integration of skilled-migrants into workforce shaped cordial relationship and lasting peace between migrants and the host community.

Humanitarian Action and Intra-Continental Migrant Children’s Education: Evidence from the Governance at the Grassroots in Nigeria

“…Latent in the thesis of this study is the quest to explore the relationship between migration and educational development. As Olaiya (2020) and Skeldon (1997) argued, the relationship between migration and development is complex, multifocal, and yet intuitively simple. To underscore the points in this study, the notion of migration was conceptually defined; neither by the transitional movement of population from rural to urban societies nor by a population-mobility-induced transit from one society (usually economically or politically backward) to a more advanced one.…”

“…Even though education could provide fulcrums for present and future subsistence, contemporary studies have revealed that schools also address the broader condition and needs of children and society in today's complex world (Moscarola & Kalwij, 2018;Kalwij, Alessie, Dinkova, Schonewille, Schors & van der Werf, 2019;Parlinduncan, 2019). While primary and secondary schools are regarded as the vehicle for driving the importance of literacy and numeracy (Xie & Tu, 2019), they also lay foundations in other areas -in spoken language, science, the arts, the humanities, and physical, emotional and moral development and proper integration into immediate society (Olaiya, 2020).…”