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4 5798490210794735920.Pdf NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIGRATION AND GLOBAL STUDIES - [IJMGS] PUBLISHED BY CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN MIGRATION AND GLOBAL STUDIES VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1, January 2021 ISSN: 2782-7534 Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Godwin Sogolo Editor Hakeem I. Tijani Editorial Members Abdalla Uba Adamu, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria Marek Hrubec, Centre of Global Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic Mbare NGom, Morgan State University, USA John A. Bewaji, The University of the West Indies, Jamaica Rasheed Olaniyi, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Grace Jokthan, National Open University of Nigeria Copy and Production Editor Felicia Oamen – National Open University of Nigeria Executive Administrative Assistants Blessing Alabi Samuel Egege Toyin Asonibare Business Managers Zubair AbdulKareem David Abbah CEMGS Academic Publications Series NOUN International Journal of Migration and Global Studies Migration and Global Studies Book Series Occasional Papers Series GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS/REFERENCING STYLE (JOURNAL ARTICLE, OCCASIONAL PAPER SERIES & BOOK SERIES) Proposal should be between 2,500 and 8,000 words. The draft of your proposal should be submitted via Centre’s email address ([email protected]) and the revised version (if required) should be received as specified on correspondence letter with the author(s). Proposals are to be written in English. Authors are advised to avoid all forms of plagiarism including self-plagiarism. All ideas and works must be properly referenced. The author must properly reference her or his own work which have been used or published elsewhere. Authors are to avoid the use of Wikipedia. Manuscripts should be referenced using endnotes or footnotes in the Chicago Manual Style as follows: Book, Single Author Hakeem Tijani, Britain, Leftist Nationalists and the Transfer of Power in Nigeria (London: Routledge, 2006) Book, Two Authors Robert Prior and Thomas Wilson, The First World War, 3rd ed. (London: Cassel, 2003), 10. Book with Three Authors Alison E. Buchanan, John Smith, and Heather Davis, Deciding for Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 55-56. Book with More than Three Authors Tijani, Hakeem, et al; Africa and the Wider World (Boston: Pearson Books Solution, 2010), 60-82. Book with an Editor Hakeem Tijani, ed; African Diaspora: Historical Analyses, Poetic Verses and Pedagogy (San Diego: University Press, 2010), 171. Work in a Collection, Anthology, or Edited Book Peter Lurie, “Mad Cow Disease is a Threat to American Meat,” in Food-Borne Illnesses, ed. Karen F. Balkin (Farmington Hills, MI: Dushkin Publishing, 2004), 16. Encyclopaedia and dictionary entries The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed., s.v. “Africa.” Volume 1, Number 1, January 2021 Scholarly Journal Jeff Latimer and Laura Casey Foss. "The Sentencing of Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Youth Under the Young Offenders Act: A Multivariate Analysis," Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 47, no.3 (2005): 481. Magazine Article Michael Petrou. “Syria Exposes Hollowness of Today’s British Labour Party,” MacLean’s, September 5, 2013, 12. Newspaper article- With or without an author Barrie McKenna. “Green Acres: the Soaring Value of Canada’s Farmland,” Globe & Mail, September 5, 2013. Person as website author Amanda Mabillard. “Romeo and Juliet Study Guide,” Shakespeare Online, last updated November 15, 2011, http://www.shakespeare-online.com/playanalysis/. Organization as Website Author “Two Million Syrians are Now Refugees,” Oxfam Canada, published September 3, 2013, http://www.oxfam.ca/news-and-publications/news/two-million-syrians-are-now-refugees. Online Book Rafe Esquith. Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire: the Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 (New York: Penguin, 2007), under “What a Wonderful World,” Google Books, books.google.com/books?isbn=1101201916. E-book Malcolm Gladwell. Outliers: the Story of Success (New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2011), Kobo edition, chap. 1. Article, Online newspaper Victoria Ptashnik. “Ottawa Lawyer Accused of Misappropriating $500,000 Living in Paris for its ‘Medical Facilities,’” Toronto Star, April 17, 2013, www.thestar.com. Article, Online journal Alexander Noyes. “Securing Reform? Power Sharing and Civil-Security Relations in Kenya and Zimbabwe,” African Studies Quarterly 13, no. 4 (2013): 31, http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v13/v13i4a2.pdf. iii Table of Contents Editorial Board ................................................................................................ i Table of Contents .......................................................................................... iv Editorial Brief ................................................................................................. v Global Dialogue of Cultures: Migrating Cultural Patterns from a Philosophical Perspective Marek Hrubec ...................................................................................................... 1 Migration and Social Integration: Emerging Dynamics William E. Uli ................................................................................................... 20 The Intangible Migrant: Language, Migration and Identity Abdalla Uba Adamu .......................................................................................... 38 Constraints in Globalization: Nutrition and Diet in Perspective Florence Ade-Famuyiwa .............................................................................. 63 Paradox of Migration in the Context of a Plural Society: Focus on Peace in Nigeria Oyebode, Musibau Olabamiji............................................................................ 81 COVID-19 Policy Responses and Human Rights of African-Black Migrants in CUSA: Implications for Africa-CUSA Relations Shaibu, T. and Olu-Adeyemo .......................................................................... 106 COVID-19 Pandemic, Migration and Human Rights Protection in Nigeria Erimma Gloria Orie ......................................................................................... 133 Migrating All-Through: A Personal Experience Godwin Sogolo, FNAL, fspsp ......................................................................... 163 Editorial Brief The Centre of Excellence in Global and Migration Studies (CEMGS) is a 2019 Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TetFund) intervention that commenced operation in March 2020. It was founded by Professor Abdallah Uba Adamu, who from 2016-2020, was the Vice Chancellor of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). This Journal is one of the academic publications of the Centre that is deemed crucial to fulfilling the vision of the founder. We should note that global migration and mobility has become part of human history and cannot be divorced from developmental plan, economics, politics, social life, and education of the citizens. Both internal and external migrations have come to influence who we are, what we do, and our future. NOUN’s CEMGS is therefore a milestone in the history of the institution. The Centre serves as the fulcrum of research on migrations, both internal and external; and its conceptualisation, contextualisation, and decolonisation as essential to multidisciplinary analyses of global studies. The International Journal of Migration and Global Studies (IJMGS) is a critical and Afrocentric-centred Journal that engages theories, concepts, and real life narratives on migrations in the locale, national, or global dimension. The Journal articles are policy oriented, adaptable for teaching, and solution driven in analysis; they are useable nationally and globally. With several factors responsible for internal, intra-regional, continental, and global movement of peoples, the Centre with the birth of its academic Journal, hopes to sustain documentation of experiences through arts methods, science and health methods, other social science methods for use in the classroom, policy making, and for experiential learning. It is hoped that the articles in this maiden edition, and subsequently, will fulfil the purpose, rationale, and aspiration of the Journal. Hakeem I. Tijani Editor Global Dialogue of Cultures: Migrating Cultural Patterns from a Philosophical Perspective Marek Hrubec Centre of Global Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences Abstract The article deals with a philosophical analysis of migrating cultural patterns in order to articulate a global dialogue of cultures, mainly in relation to Africa. It analyses a potential for consensus among cultures by means of an intercultural dialogue. It is therefore, a contribution towards overcoming the confrontations among migrating cultural patterns, and the eradication of the coercive imposing of interests and values onto other cultures and civilizations. The article demonstrates that an intercultural identification and satisfaction of common needs and interests across individual cultures that recognize each other is one of the effective forms of resistance against people being misrecognized. However, this requires a formulation of common needs and interests based on the needs and interests of individual cultures and the dialogue among them. Concerning African cultures, the relevance of Africa has recently grown in the world, mainly in demographic, economic, and political terms. BRICS and several other countries, including Nigeria, which have been on an economic upswing within a plurality of modern patterns over recent decades, have been influential in the development of African countries in the multilateral
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