SOCIO-ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT ON DISPLACED FAMILIES IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Abstract The frequent internal security challenges in Nigeria have in no small measure affected all her institutions. The worst hit is the family institution with a current estimate of over 3.3 million internally displaced persons in Nigeria according to a joint report by the Internal Displaced Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) (2016). This paper examined the socio-economic effects of internal displacement on displaced families. It is an evaluative study analyzed from relational/vengeance and functionalist theoretical model. Data utilized are secondary, sourced mainly from journals, textbooks, the internet, etc. The study found that internal displacement the challenge is telling heavily in all facets of the family institution in Nigeria; therefore recommends, arrests and prosecution of crisis driven agents, effective and efficient welfare package for all internally displaced families, formulating and implementing honest and achievable programmes to address cases of absolute poverty and unemployment in Nigeria among other measures to address the lingering challenges of insecurity and internal displacement in Nigeria.