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Title:Ghanaian Responses to the Nigerian Expulsions of 1983
Author:Brydon, LynneISNI
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.
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