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Title: | Ghanaian Responses to the Nigerian Expulsions of 1983 |
Author: | Brydon, Lynne |
Year: | 1985 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 84 |
Issue: | 337 |
Period: | October |
Pages: | 561-585 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Ghana Nigeria |
Subjects: | foreign policy deportation Politics and Government Inter-African Relations Labor and Employment |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/722328 |
Abstract: | Although the expulsion of illegal aliens from Nigeria in January/February 1983 attracted major news coverage, little serious attention has been devoted to the fate of the returnees since then or to an analysis of the 'causes' of the aliens' presence in Nigeria; of Nigeria's actions towards them; and, more generally, of longer-standing political and economic relationships in the region. The present article examines some of the underlying socio-historic factors, in particular the developing political history of Ghana and Nigeria and the relations between them, and documents the circumstances and events of the 1983 expulsions, both from the official administrative and the more immidiate, 'participant' points of view. - Notes, tab. |