Keywords: Changing Impact; Development; Migration; Migration Policy; National Development

Abstract

The study focused on migration policies in Nigeria and their impacts on national development with specific focus on the Nigeria National Migration Policy of 2015 which was formulated to foster national development. The goal of the study was to examined the impact of migration policy on national development adopting the 2015 National Migration Policy of Nigeria. The study adopted the Modernisation Theory and theory of Change as the theoretical framework. The study obtained data from secondary sources through indexes of scholars’ work on related literature such as journal publications, books, articles among others. The paper revealed that despite government effort to foster national development through migration policies, certain factors like policy incoherence and ambiguity, inadequate policy integration and implementation, poor database, insecurity, hunger, poverty, unemployment, unstable economy among other had constituted hiccups to migration policies’ influence and effectiveness on national development. Thus, the paper concluded that the incoherence and ambiguity of the policy contributed to its implementation failure coupled with poor database and monitoring techniques. The study recommended among others, urgent review of migration policies; partnership between government and the society on migration matters; policy coherence, engaging and empowering migrants as development actors through policy.

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Published: 2024

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