FINAL REPORT According to my research plan, my research topic is about migration and brain drain (with a case study on African students in Sweden). I will start by defining migration which is the area I will be researching. According to Castle and Miller (2008), migration is the process or means by which people move from one geographic location to another geographic location (Castle and Miller, 2009). However, migration plays a key role in the development of both developed and developing countries. I will go further to say that the migration of people is not a new phenomenon, as people have always migrated from one country to another for various reasons. However, these movements could have enormous effects on the African continent, and could also have a negative impact on the current development process that the region is going through (ILO, 2009). Apart from economic and war-driven migrants (refugees); there is also another group of migrants (students) who come from different parts of Africa seeking better education abroad. The migration of Africans to Europe and America can be traced back to the 1960s, when large numbers of Africans emigrated, engaging in an unprecedented expansion of access to education across Europe and America (Adepoju, 2004) . many researchers have attributed the advent of globalization to other parts of the world. Africa in general has experienced mass migrations of people to other parts of the world for various reasons. These African migrants include students seeking education outside their country of origin; and my research intends to focus on this group of people. Students leave... halfway through their studies... or stay in Sweden and try to start a new life. The push factor plays an important role in this decision-making process; and this is because many African students who leave politically unstable countries or low-economic countries are often caught up in the opportunities they hope to gain here in Sweden, rather than returning to Africa where the hope of having such opportunities is often very low. Furthermore, the push factor can be considered to play a more important role in why these students decided to leave their country in exchange for a life in Sweden, because many of them actually did not know much about Sweden before coming; but they simply had the idea that life in Europe would be much better than what they had in Africa, and the opportunities they had to gain here in Sweden would be greater than those in Africa.