Publisher: Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana
Pages: 274
Year: 2018
Category: Development Studies, Migration, Social Sciences
Dimensions: 234 x 156 mm
Perspectives from Ghana
Migration has assumed growing significance in the global
development agenda as its potential for economic and social development
is increasingly acknowledged. Within the Africa context, perceptions of
migration as a negative phenomenon have shifted to recognition of its
central role to Africa’s transformation. Despite this shift, emerging
migration dynamics have not been adequately contextualized and
conceptualized, making it difficult to integrate migration into
development planning processes. This book attempts to fill the gaps in
migration knowledge production, particularly from the perspectives of
researchers in the global south and more specifically from Ghana. The
chapters provide multi disciplinary perspectives in the contemporary
migration landscape in Ghana and Africa. Rather than focus on migration
as a problem to be solved, the chapters explore migration as an
intrinsic part of the broader processes of structural change in Ghana,
which could create opportunities for development if properly harnessed.
This reader is an essential resource for migration and development
researchers, students, policy makers, practitioners and others
interested in the field of development.
£36.00
About the editors
John Kwasi Anarfi has a PhD in Population Studies from the Regional
Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana, Legon. He
spent one year as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Australian National
University (ANU), Canberra, in 1993 under a Population Council
Fellowship. He worked as a Research Fellow at the Institute of
Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana,
Legon from November 1989 till his retirement in July 2009. Between 2001
and 2007, he was the Deputy Director of ISSER. He is now Associate
Professor of Population Studies (post-retirement contract) at RIPS. His
areas of specialization include migration studies, women in migration,
sexuality and AIDS, adolescent reproductive health and street children.
Alhassan Sulemana Anamzoya is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of
Sociology, University of Ghana, Legon, where he obtained his PhD in
Sociology with a special interest in legal anthropology. His recent
research focuses on chieftaincy and law, migration, access to justice
and micro analysis of the court system. His publications are in the
Legon Journal of Sociology, Research Review, African Review, and the
Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law. He is a Postdoctoral
Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (AHP), and, has
collaborated with: colleagues in the English Department of the
University of Ghana on the Language Choice and Language Shift Among
Migrants in Accra; with colleagues at the University of Hamburg and
Bayreuth (both in Germany), and, LASDEL (Niamey) on African Courts and
Institutional Development), and, with Colleagues in the Sociology
Department and Department of Geography and Resource Development
(University of Ghana), on Migrant Chiefs in Urban Ghana.
Geraldine Adiku is completing her DPhil (PhD) in International
Development at the Oxford Department of International Development
(ODID), University of Oxford. Her research focuses on understanding the
complex role of diverse socio-economic backgrounds, migration
motivations and experiences of migrants and their relatives, in
influencing the nature, volume and direction of transnational transfers
(remittance and reverse remittances). She has just completed a six
month stint as a junior visiting research fellow at the Faculty of Arts
and Social Sciences (FASoS), Maastricht University.