| ISSN: 2583-3812 | ISSN: 2583-3812JOURNAL ARTICLE
Keywords: migration space, globalization, intelligence, society
Abstract: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013) x-rays a complex world driven by advanced technology to the continuous undoing of borders and complexly, for the benefit and disadvantage of humanity. Low cost transportation and communication processes increasingly intensify migration processes from the global south into the global northern geographies of The United States of America (USA) and Britain. This paper respectively builds on these unrestricted movements, mainly on those from the 1990 Nigeria. The aim of this engagement is to underline the complicated facets of migrant centers. Relatively, the paper registers the underpinnings of otherness―a context from where it cries foul to the optimism tales surrounding globalization. Explicitly, it hints on the increased insecurity and challenges that migrants undergo in a bid to define selves and further stresses on how the degraded natural landscapes put the ecological systems of both migrant center and the entire planet at risk. Concurrently, it celebrates the beauty of immigration under the umbrellas of transnationalism and cosmopolitancy. Analytically, it uses globalization theory, basically from the perspectives of Arjun Appadurai’s Social Imaginary and Ulrich Beck’s risk society. The paper is built on the rational that though globalization has led to the growth of urban cities, it has constrained the sustenance of individuals and the natural environment. The central argument of the article is wrapped around the thought that because the global society is a concoction of the upright, the depraved and the unpleasant, its citizens have to employ intelligence so as to live meaningfully.
Article Info: Received on: 25 Dec 2024 Revised on: 28 Jan 2025 Accepted on: 10 Feb 2025
DOI: 10.22161/ijeel.4.1.6
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