ABSTRACT
The chapter examines Africa’s regional integration from a migrant welfare perspective based on a Pan-African ideology. It takes political provision for African migrant welfare as one significant disjunction between the central principles of Pan-Africanism as a foundational ideology for African regional integration, and a neoliberal economic fast track to regional integration and development. Contemporary African migrants’ experience in African cities is increasingly being shaped by xenophobic attacks and other forms of vulnerability, especially at the informal level. Extraordinarily, in the same context of the abuse of some African migrants, giant economic steps are being taken for African regional integration. Thus, the paper notes that aspirations and anxieties are exacerbated at the state level spiralling the vulnerability of African migrants in host cities. The paper thus argues for regional responsibility for migrants’ welfare.
