| dc.description.abstract | This study endeavors to examine the impact of East Africa Community integration on
Immigration Policies and in particular the Kenya Immigration Policy. The study sought to
achieve the following specific objectives: To investigate the effect of East Africa integration to
Immigration Policies in Kenya. To establish how free movement of persons has impacted on
immigration. To establish how free movement of services and labor influences the issuance of
work permits by Kenya. To establish how the rights of residence and establishment has affected
alien management in Kenya. The study used both Primary and Secondary source of data. The
units of observation was department of EAC and that of immigration with emphasis being the
Permit Section, Administration and border stations that neighbor both Tanzania and Uganda.
The findings of the research show that Kenya Immigration Policy has undergone a lot of changes
both in form and content leading to new, open, liberal and progressive less restrictive policies.
The security experts hold the opinion that there are more security risks given the nature of
regional borders leading to trans-border crimes such as human trafficking , smuggling in persons
and goods including the infiltration of contraband goods, drugs and psychotropic substances. | en_US |
