MIGRATION IMPULSES AND THE MAKING OF DIASPORAN AFRICAN PERSONA
Eric Omazu, Rakiya Mamman-Simpson, & Chuks Odiegwu-Enwerem— (Page 181)
Abstract
Why do people migrate? Scholars who have attempted to answer this question focus on the broad, mainstream reasons why people decide to leave their country or place of residence for another. There are a few studies on why people who visit a country for different reasons decide later to immigrate.
This paper adopts an auto-ethnographical and sociogenic methods of study to investigate into why people who visit a country for another reason decide to transit
permanently as immigrants. Also, few studies have considered the effect of migration on the
migrating/migrated individual outside the economic reconfiguration of their status.
Using African migrants to the United States as examples, this paper equally examines the effect of migration experience on the identity of African migrants. It examines the various forces that drive migration whether as a centrifugal or as a centripetal force and considers their effects on the migration subject. The paper is an experiential description of the reality of migration.
Keywords: African Diaspora, Circumstantial Migration, Identity, Immigrant, Migration
impulses
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