especially so with respect to the disproportionate movement of people from the Global
South to the Global North.
One dominant explanation among others being given is the systematic and conscious ploy
on the part of the West to consign the postcolonial world especially Africa to the
centuries-long responsibility of providing cheap raw materials for Western technological
and industrial use (Samir Amin 2006:94). Thereafter, these raw materials are transformed
into finished goods which Africa is made to buy at a highly prohibitive cost, thereby
serving to advance the wealth of the West and other similarly allied international blocs to
the impoverishment of Africa. The social-economic and infrastructural disorientation that
the continent experienced in the 1970s and 80s has also been put forward as another
major issue in what accounts for the undermining of the realization of the aspiration
towards global equilibrium. Knowing that the deterioration in social infrastructure and
standard of living was also connected then with the implantation of Structural Adjustment
Programmes (SAP) and World Bank and International Monetary Funds (IMF) conditions
for obtaining loans, the terms of such conditions of borrowing from these world financial
institutions were very clear. The instruction to cut down on public expenditure (Peter
Abrahams 2000:229) was crucial to the giving of the loans; its implications touched
negatively on peoples’ conditions of living, making education, for instance, unaffordable
in many countries while public infrastructure suffered neglect.
As the recommended austerity measures began to take toll on the people the option of
migration became attractive more and more. Since the promise of economic liberalization
and freedom turned out to look more like a fencing out of the people against better
standards of living, they soon realized how they had come face to face with the violence
of poverty among others. The option of migration appeared and still appears today as
reasonable in view of the contradictory violence that the promise of better living handed
the masses from postcolonial nations in Africa and other parts of Asia. Yet the migration
option is no guarantee for reprieve from being fenced from the much sought after better
conditions of living. The violence of exclusion from better living conditions can be