SUDANESE MIGRATION TO THE NEW-WORLD - SOCIOECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS

Sudanese migration is one of the most recent waves from the developing world to the US and Canada. Previous studies on Sudanese internationa l migration were concerned with migration to Egypt and the oil-rich Ar ab countries (i.e. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Libya, Qatar and Iraq). This article, the first on Sudanese-New World migrati on, focuses on the period since the advent of the current Islamic mili tary government of Lieutenant General Umar al Bashir in 1989, the Gulf war of 1991 and the renewal of the civil war in the Sudan. The articl e demonstrates that an earlier, small, temporary migration from the Su dan to the New World, based principally (but not exclusively) on seeki ng higher education, has been replaced by a larger migration stemming from political unrest, economic stringency and a perceived lack of cho ice in migration. The article also provides basic descriptive data on this phenomenon.