African Immigrants

African nationals choose to move away from Africa for different reasons. The severe economic difficulties, increased poverty and the political instability in many countries in Africa have pushed people to seek to leave the continent. (Takougang 2005) As stated in my introduction, many African immigrants come into the United States as immigrants and also after having gained asylum. Africans immigrants from certain countries come to the United States to flee conflicts that are happening in their countries.( McCabe 2011) However, this is not the only reason why Africans choose to leave the United States.

Another possible reason for one to move is the declining value of currency in their country and economy in their home countries. Reynolds

Reynolds also writes about the reasons why highly educated African immigrants immigrate to the United States. Reynolds focuses on the Igbo, an ethnic group of Nigeria. She writes “I have pointed out that they are highly skilled professionals, which I call 'brain drainers', whose migration order was predicated upon economic pressure, but that also, their decisions to immigrate were precipitated first and foremost by the desire for professional education abroad. I have also discussed middle class Igbo family expectations for education, including the ways that education is assured to youth, and how education is gendered. I also discussed how the extended family system of support and inheritance law facilitates young men's decisions to emigrate.” ( Reynolds 2002)Reynolds highlights the fact that some people immigrate, not only to improve their own lives, but also to improve the lives of their family members who depend on them. Just like the educated Africans that Reynolds speak of, many other African immigrants decide to move because of the lack of opportunity and the want for better life standards,to support their families in their home countries by sending money back home, and the failing economies back home. ( Reynolds