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- Title
Migration, trade and resistance in the resource-rich Bakassi Peninsula.
- Authors
Ogen, Olukoya
- Abstract
The oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula is located at the eastern end of the Gulf of Guinea. Although the Efik ethnic group of Nigeria forms the predominant population in the Peninsula, the territory lies within Cameroonian territory, as certified by the Anglo-German treaty of 1913 and the 2002 ruling of the International Court of Justice. Surprisingly, in spite of the ICJ judgment and the commitments of the Cameroonian and Nigerian governments to implementing the provisions of the ruling, Nigerian migrants in the Peninsula have put up a stiff resistance to their planned resettlement in Nigeria. This study analyses the border-cum-migration problematics that prevail in the Peninsula. It argues that patterns of migrant life rooted in historic and still functioning socio-cultural and economic networks persist in defiance equally of national and international agreements and political claims to ethnic solidarity.
- Subjects
BAKASI Peninsula (Cameroon); CAMEROON; NIGERIA; EFIK (African people); IMMIGRATION law; BORDER crossing; INTERNATIONAL conflict; TREATIES; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Migrations & Identities, 2008, Vol 1, Issue 2, p151
- ISSN
1753-9021
- Publication type
Article