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    "If I Only get a Visa": Configurations of Residential Preferences and Contemporary Migration of Africans to Europe and North America.
    (Uganda Martyrs University, 2017) Ssnkosi, Moses Balyejjusa; Kasoma, Abisagi Ndagire
    Although the number of Sub-Saharan immigrants to Europe and North America is relatively small, it is steadily increasing. These include regular and irregular, voluntary and involuntary, and labour migrants. A number of factors- political, economic, demographic, ethnic, psychological and ecological explain these forms of migration (International Organisation for Migration [IOM] 2000; 2005). These factors are usually explained using the push-pull paradigm (Ravenstein 1885; Bocker and Havinga 1997; Castles and Miller 1998; IOM 2002; Bloch 2002; Troche 2005). For instance, political instability and wars, unemployment, human right services, low standards of living, and many others, fall under the push factors, while high standards of living, availability of employment opportunities, democracy and good governance, high quality education and health care, and so on, are conceived as pull factors (Ravenstein 1885; Bloch 2002; IOM 2000; 2003; 2005). It is these push-pull factors that motivate human beings to migrate, including crossing internationally recognised state boarders (Bloch 2002; IOM 2000; 2003; Loescher 1993)...