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Labour migrants Evidence to the fact that many immigrants are labour migrants are data on the type of employment in which they engage. Table 21 (see annex) shows the distribution of a sample of employed persons in 4,652 establishments in December 2001 (National Manpower Board, 2004). The data are analysed by occupation and nationality; the non-Nigerians are persons regarded as labour migrants. The majority of the labour migrants were employed in the private sector of the economy. Non-Nigerians represented 0.14 per cent of the total number of the sampled people employed in 2001. The prominent sectors for immigrant labour in the country were as follows: general managers (2.73%); corporate managers (0.89%); physical, mathematical and engineering science professionals (0.43%); and office clerks (0.34%). Other occupations of note are labourers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transport (0.27%); customer service clerks (0.21%); life science and health professionals (0.18%); precision, handicraft, printing and related workers (0.18%); sales persons, demonstrators and models (0.17%); metal and machinery trade workers (0.16%); and agriculture, fisheries and related workers (0.16%). Furthermore, the occupational groupings of persons arriving in the country in 1991 according to their nationalities are used in examining the type of employment in which foreigners arriving in the country (immigrants) are engaged. The first four main occupation groups were clerical and related workers; professional/technical and related workers; administrative and managerial workers; and production/transport and related workers. Foreigners from ECOWAS countries formed the majority (42.84%) of the clerical and related workers group; followed by those from Europe (26.81%), other African countries (10.49%), Asia (8.56%), the Americas (6.38%) and other countries (4.54%). Also, foreigners from Europe dominated the professional/technical and related workers group (47.37%) (NPC, 1991). Some of these expatriate professionals work in the health sector, partially filling the gaps created by the emigration of Nigerian doctors and nurses abroad. In its 2006 draft policy document entitled “National Human Resources for Health”, the Ministry of Health states that nearly three thousand (2,968) expatriate doctors (out of 39,210 doctors) and 215 expatriate dentists (out of 2,773 dentists) were practising in the health sector in the country in 2006 (IOM, 2009a). 52 <strong>Migration</strong> in Nigeria: A Country <strong>Profile</strong> 2009
Students No recent data on students are currently available. The latest national estimates refer to 1991, when national students accounted for 16.4 million individuals, which represented 18.43 per cent of the total national population. Among foreign citizens, students represented just 29.8 thousand individuals or 6.27 per cent of the total foreign population (NPC, 1991). Tourists and visitors Table 22 (see annex) shows that the number of inbound tourists in Nigeria increased during the 2003–2006 period, from 2.25 million in 2003, 2.65 million in 2004, 2.78 million in 2005 to 3.05 million in 2006. The largest contingent was from Africa, accounting for about two thirds of tourists (2.11 million) in 2006. The tourists came mainly from Niger (620,658), Benin (393,215), Liberia (107,401) and Cameroon (107,108) (UNWTO, 2008). c.1.3 irregular immigration Irregular migrants come under two categories: those who enter the destination countries in a regular situation and overstay their visa, and those who leave Nigeria without proper travel documentation and/or entered destination countries improperly. Also, the category of migrants who enter through the unofficial routes falls under the definition of irregular immigrants. Irregular migration occurs both out of and into Nigeria. Many ECOWAS citizens overstay the 90 days of grace without regularizing their stay; hence, the major expulsion exercises of January–March 1985 and May–June 1986 (Afolayan, 1988). Not only do irregular migrants come from the ECOWAS region, occasional expulsions have taken place of many expatriates in the commercial, professional and oil sectors of the economy. These people had either overstayed their visa period, or entered without the necessary documents to be able to stay. The problem is one of getting adequate data on such irregular immigrants. Foreign victims of human trafficking/smuggling The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other Related Matters (NAPTIP) gives figures for foreigners who were the victims of trafficking in persons in Nigeria as follows: 332 (2004), 75 (2005), 924 (2006), 339 (2007) and 867 (2008) rescued foreign victims in Nigeria, as shown in Table 23 (see annex) (NAPTIP, 2009). <strong>Migration</strong> in Nigeria: A Country <strong>Profile</strong> 2009 53
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