CONTEMPORARY CONFLICT AND PEACE STRATEGIC PHENOMENON, MIGRATION AND REFUGEES ISSUES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Jibrin Ubale Yahaya
Department of Political Science
Nasarawa State University, Keffi
Email: jibrinubaleyahaya@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Since the second half of the 1940s, the Middle East has experienced intense migrations. In 2005 alone, the region received a total of approximately 6 million refugees. Migration flows to and from the Middle East have been linked to nationalist movements and ethnic conflicts. However, these relations have received little attention from scholars. Scholarly work on migration in the Middle East that has been accumulated between the early 1950s and the late 1980s falls into two broad categories in terms of subject matter: Jewish migration to Israel and the Palestinian refugees, and migrations to labor-short countries of the Gulf and Europe. This paper has look at the new trends in the literature on migration in the Middle East and identified issues relating to the gender aspects of migration, population displacement and resettlement, return migration, and the relationship between migration and security. Although the field has made significant progress—the scope of the literature with respect to subject matter has broadened from the 1980s onward, and the methods used by scholars have become more sophisticated over the years—there are some shortcomings that need to be addressed. A number of important issues, such as citizenship or economic dynamics, remain unexplored. Since labor migrations to and from the Middle East are central to economic development, a focus on the evolution of migration may shed light on numerous relevant themes that need be central to help in addressing the issues of migration and peace in the Middle East by looking the crisis in middle east with human face and propose appropriate amicable solution of the crisis by entire global community to ensure the sustenance of justice and peace in the Middle East. Keywords: Migration, Peace, Insecurity and Displacement
