Paper short abstract:

The consequences of disguised western migration policies on Africa’s developmental drive have been unwavering. Yet the beneficiary has always played the victim even when its policies suggest a siphoning spree agenda of trained human resources out of Africa.

Paper long abstract:

The consequences of disguised western migration policies on Africa’s developmental drive have been unwavering. Yet the beneficiary has always played the victim even when its policies such as blue card, green card, scholarship schemes all suggest the contrary. While migration policies in the Sahel are sponsored by the West to restrain irregular migration of unskilled Africans who are perceived to be a burden, the blue card and scholarship schemes are used to bate thousands of skilled personnel to support the healthcare and educational systems of the west. The attempt to understanding the consequences of the western migration policies on Africa’s developmental drive and the associated complexities remain the main focus of this paper. Review of relevant literature and migration policies shows that, the care industry in Europe and America survives on the back of trained teachers and health workers from Africa and other third world countries. It has been observed that the effects of the western migration policies even soared in post COVID-19. In 2021 alone, over 44, 000 basic schoolteachers in Ghana resigned and migrated to Western Countries. This supports the arguments of the underdevelopment theorist of migration which sees the capitalist migration policies as the best means of siphoning cheap labour to prosecute its developmental agenda at the expense of countries in the global south. The accessibility of the west migration policies to the hinterlands of the global south exacerbates the poverty, labour displacements to major sectors while the core profits for their development.