What is it about?
Economic migrants have often embraced the option of greener pasture search in other stable economies, but are sometimes challenged by overwhelming factors that limit them from achieving their goals. This paper reflects on Adekunle Gold's 'Ire" to remind economic migrants that success is not a function of location but resourcefulness in collaboration with destiny
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Why is it important?
In analysing the track, the concept of shame stood prominently as a factor influencing the resilience of some economic migrants to tolerate the coldness of the host country than return to the warmth of the homeland. The consistent pleas by the artiste to these migrants to return to the goodness in the homeland also sound the warning that migrants should have a robust conviction that the other side will yield unto them the fortunes that informed their flight in the first instance.
Perspectives
There is no better time to write this article than now especially as many Nigerian are leaving the shores of the country in droves. As migration policies consistently face reviews that limit migrants especially economic, I hope this article provokes, as well as prepare intending migrants embark on a safe and healthy travel.
Henrietta Eshalomi
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This page is a summary of: Bursting the bubble: Border crossing and return in Adekunle Gold’s Ire, Crossings Journal of Migration and Culture, October 2022, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/cjmc_00067_1.
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