Journal of African Studies and Sustainable Development

The rate of international migration is alarming and causing an imbalance in the population distribution around the world. The spate of international migration is even more worrisome because a great number of the migrants are from the region of the world identified as the global south; a coinage intended to bring about a more positive perception of the countries that constitute the global south. But even this has not helped much to stem the tide of the spate of migration, especially of youths, from these countries of the global south to the more developed countries of the global north. There are principles that are operational both in the coinage of the term 'global south' and the spate of international migration. In this study, these principles will be questioned and analyzed through the instrumentality of philosophy, for a better understanding of the idea of the global south and international migration.

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