Abstract
The arguments developed in this chapter are supported with ethnographic material on Nigerian Diaspora that the author collected in his fieldwork in Thessaloniki, Greece and Amsterdam. By examining the case of the Nigerian Diaspora, the chapter analyses the importance of class and money for those who want to migrate today. This is a result of the restrictive migration policies that have increased the cost of both regular and irregular migration. Class determines not only who can migrate but also how he/she can migrate. Upper class Nigerians are able to migrate as students or as highly-skilled migrants to North America and England or less preferably to other European countries, such as the Netherlands. Highly-skilled and documented Nigerian migrants, apart from representing Nigerians in public through their organisations as successful and established migrants, also provide Nigerian migrants with information and advice for their new life in Europe. Keywords: Amsterdam; Greece; Migration; Netherlands; Nigerian migrants; Thessaloniki
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