The European Conference on Cultural Studies 2014

Brighton, United Kingdom



Official Conference Proceedings

The European Conference on Cultural Studies 2014

Brighton, United Kingdom



Official Conference Proceedings

The European Conference on Cultural Studies 2014

Brighton, United Kingdom



Official Conference Proceedings

The world is gradually shrinking that at the press of a button events happening in farflung

part of the earth could be followed live via cable network. Globalization or
capitalist penetration of every economy is the new phenomenon. Industrialized
nations of the West are growing richer and having access to natural resources of the
third world. Most of the third world countries are experiencing harsh economic turn.
World trade organization (WTO) continues to harp on the need for free trade which is
beneficial to the developed countries. Yet developed Western countries mount an
impenetrable fortress to ward off immigrants from their paradise. Nigerian
immigrants’ device different strategies to scale protected Western fence at great cost.
Desperate Nigerians trying to escape economic difficulties at home change citizenship
as one changes his clothes. A cabal dealing on sale of international passport of various
countries exist in Nigeria and for a good price valid passports are procured that could
yield one a place in the enclosed economic safe-havens of the world. While citizens of
the West enjoy unrestricted free-movement from one part of the world to the other,
even as tourists, Nigerian citizens seeking economic opportunities in Europe are
quarantined, threatened with imprisonment, deportation and denied such access.
Employing newspaper, magazine reports and other extant secondary materials
including oral interviews of those in the business of securing visas in Nigeria and
migration theories, the paper will attempt an analysis of this phenomenon.

Paul Obi-Ani
Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani