Five social effects of migration of the mijikenda in their present land:
1. Firstly migration leads to the situation of war. Because the inhabitants of Kenya thought that their privacy will get affected by the invasion of new immigrants.
2. Many local people lost their habitat due to this migration.
3. Introduction of new cultural traits including cooking strategies and fooding habit etc. into the natives from the migrants.
4. Economic practices also changed or extended due to migrants. Those who were previously engaged in cultivation only now they are engaged in cattle rearing also.
5. Lingual variation is the another factor that came into the society. Different cultural and linguistic groups came into the new land and introduced their own culture over there.
Explanation:
Migration refers to the movement of people from one place to another. both in migration and out migration affects society and environment in its own way. Migration of mijikenda affect their present land in various ways. Firstly through war, habitat loss, new cultural traits etc.
Beneficial effect of migration in the receiving country is that they get new economic strategies, new source of livelihoods through new comers. Societal and cultural upliftment is also a significant contribution of migration.
