Globalization and International Migration

The issue of irregular migration these days is becoming a topical and pressing issue with both short and long term multifaceted consequences. However, studies so far in the study area get short of integrated approach in dealing the issue and its actors and factors dynamism along line with waves of globalization. This research project is therefore, intended to investigate thedynamics of actors and contextual factors interplay in a way that can gave a full picture of irregular migration. The study employed qualitative research approach with purposive and snow ball sample selection technique. The study revealed that, with the adverse expansion of globalization and borderless mobility of goods, services, finance and information, the actors and factors interplay in facilitating irregular migration is drastically changing. As such the application of static and one-fits all policy approach to mitigate and reduce migration flow is proved to be less effective in the study area. Moreover, poverty, livelihood survival difficulty, ecological factors of the study area, Social network of pioneer migrant back and forth, systematization of traffickers and smugglers, the issue of psycho-social construction are most pressing issues that all combined together exacerbating and shaping the nature and magnitude of irregular migration in the study area. To this end, Sharpening and widening anti human trafficking laws and policies, designing feasible poverty and unemployment reducing strategies accompanied by modest labor wage with framed short and long term effects are the core insights that can have significant returns in reversing irregular migration in the study area.