Navigating through Undocumented Migration and Human Trafficking in the Select Works of Benjamin Kwakye

Abstract

The research article sheds its light on the undocumented migration and the challenges faced by the immigrants and its unintended consequences. The complexities in getting the legal papers or the lack of the economic factors or some other myriad forces accelerate the illegal flow of migration. Like the legal migrants, the illegal or the undocumented migrants are pulled by the socio- economic factors of the host nation. The illusion of economic development hastens the migration. During the process of undocumented migration, the immigrants fall prey to the human traffickers and the aftermath proceedings in getting the legal papers are too complicated. As the migrants track their routes to the host land in the crooked manner, they become the victims of the human traffickers very easily. The undocumented migrants couldn’t get proper aid from the others as their journey is not legalised and their visibility is hidden. The research study aims to unfurl the hardships of undocumented migrants and the exploitative strategy of the human traffickers through the lens of Benjamin Kwakye, the contemporary African writer. Exploration towards the roots of undocumented migration and the ways to reduce the threat remains inevitable. The study aims to explore the relationship between human trafficking and illegal migration and the silenced voices of the undocumented migrants by analysing the select works of Benjamin Kwakye.