Spatial patterns, trends and flow of internal migration in African continent (1990-2014)

Kalosona Paul, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
Ashwani Kumar, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

The flow of African continent Migration are obtained from last two decades is estimated 13.9 million to 15.4 million. The general determined of global pattern in which a set of push factors remarkably a deteriorating economy, political instability, droughts, and inner conflict land acquisition wars are largely liable for the exit of people from the origin countries and emigrants are attractive towards pulling neighbouring countries (Premi, 1985). We assessed Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Mozambique, and Somalia countries were hosted by huge emigration. Equatorial belts of African countries are facing communal-ethnic war. However, last twenty years, constantly placed in the form of refugees, civil war (Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone), armed conflict (Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan), or political dispute (Mozambique and Zimbabwe). Natural disasters persist; the drought in the western Africa has dislodged huge numbers of immigrates nearer countries namely Ethiopia and South Africa. Keywords: Immigration, Emigration, Displacement, Refugees, Structured Matrix,