Factors Leading Algerian Youth to Illegal Immigration: A Study of University Students' Attitudes

Abstract

This study deals with the attitudes of university students towards the factors leading Algerian youth to illegal immigration. Cognitive and cultural among university students about the phenomenon of illegal immigration, and the study relied on a Likert scale to measure students' attitudes, which was applied to 57 individuals who were chosen by the simple random sample of Skikda University students, and among the most important findings: The difficult economic conditions experienced by the Algerian youth, such as unemployment The lack of individual income and the high cost of living were among the direct reasons that led Algerian youth to illegal immigration. Al-Awla has an effective role in spreading convictions among Algerian youth that life in the West and achieving it has become a necessary requirement, whatever the cost. Given the strictness of international laws on immigration, illegal immigration was the only way for young people to achieve their aspirations and achieve their goals and dreams, even if it cost them the loss of their lives. The study recommended: The need to create well-established, well-studied and codified development projects aimed at young people in general and university graduates in particular, provided that this is led and supervised by wise men with experience, competence, skill and a clear conscience. And the need to devise organizational administrative conditions and laws that regulate the issue of movement, travel, and residence abroad, because the youth’s desire for clandestine migration via death boats is due primarily to the complexities and administrative and organizational conditions in this regard.