Social
Push Factors
1. Natural Disasters
2. Political Violence & War
Politicians recruit, train and empower local secret sect to
harass intimidate and victimize political opponents.
Political violence brings poverty, ethnic or religious
grievances which affect the social relationship of the people
in the society and have implications for national peace and
security, and thereby threaten the dissolution of the country.
3. Safety
Not much safety in Nigeria, crime is high due to widespread
poverty, armed muggings, assaults, burglaries, carjacking,
rapes and kidnapping.
Law enforcement authorities usually respond slowly or not at
all and provide with little or no investigative support to
victims.
Poor Livings Conditions
Nigeria has low-income earners living in unhygienic
conditions. The communities are densely populated, with
inadequate water and electricity supplies.
Nigeria lacking the appropriate garbage disposal facilities
and good drainage. Personal hygiene habits and very poor;
open defecation in ditches and the lagoon is widely practiced.
Blocked drainage systems result in a number of diseases such
as malaria, diarrhea, cold and cough.
Economic Opportunity
Nigeria is on track to become one of the 20th largest
economies in the world by the 2020s. Nigeria has economic
opportunities in Agriculture, Real estate, power, automobile,
dairy and poultry. Other sectors include banking, fast food,
telecommunication, oil and gas.
Why would Nigerians go to America?
Nigerians would go to America Because…
America is a multicultural country which matters because
Nigerians can go there even if they are not of the same culture.
America has an amazing school system and elementary
schools are free to join. This matters because they can barely
afford to go to school and they can’t anyway because of child
labour.
People in poorer parts of the world search job opportunities in
America. They have amazing well paid jobs, parents work
while their children get educated as education is free in
America.
In America children have the right of protection while in
Nigeria they give them a bad time beating them up, put a lot
pressure to work.
Physical Barriers
Hundreds of illegal immigrants die in an attempt to cross an
ocean migrate to America.
Large Nigerian Mountains can greatly reduce the effective
mobility of vehicles.
Deserts with their lack of water forces travelers to carry their
own supply hence slowing their travel rate.
Physical barriers are easily overcome with the ability of
planes, aircrafts, ship and other types of transportation. Only
few people in Nigeria can afford transportation
Political Barriers
To stop citizens to leave Nigeria, government created Exit
Taxes. Governments set rules to control the number of
immigrants leaving the country so people have to wait a very
long time to migrate to America. Only a few can leave a week.
Environmental Barriers
Increased immigration has a negative effect on the
environment cause there wont be that many people working at
Nigeria mostly kids and Nigeria is also aiming for 20th biggest
economic country.
Low income families, they do not value education because
they cannot afford it and have to do child labour to bring
additional income to the family.
45.5% of Nigeria is Muslim and 53.1% of Nigeria is
Christianity. Child Labour that can affect children education
and health is prohibited in Islam (Muslims). In these religions,
people are not allowed to force child labour but they have to
because of poverty in Nigeria
Muslims follow God and Christians follow Jesus Christ.
The class systems are Primary-Junior-Secondary-A’LevelsColledge/University. The system is rigid; the work is 3x harder
than America and sometimes the teachers hit you.
Family Values
A man has large amount of children with many wives.
Education is highly valued more so than wealth, a poor
educated man gets more respect than rich man who has not
been educated. Nigerian people are honest, loyal and
trustworthy to do business with.
Social Structure
Nigerian society is divided into upper, middle and lower
classes. Poor education, lack of opportunities, ill health,
corrupt politicians, and lacks of even small amounts of wealth
for investment all work to keep the lower classes in their
place.
Lower class due to low income leads to child labour. Lower
class can mover from lower to middle or upper class by
creating jobs, providing affordable houses, healthcare
services and free education.