Migration in a globalizing world 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Awumbila, Mariama (-), Badasu, Delali Margaret, 1958-, Teye, Joseph
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Legon-Accra, Ghana : For the University of Ghana by Sub-Saharan Publishers 2018.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Migration reader series.
University of Ghana readers.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40586236*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Mariama Awumbila, Joseph Kofi Teye & Delali Margaret Badasu
  • part 1. Migration patterns and trends in Africa and implications for migration policy. Dynamics of intra-regional migration in West Africa : implications for ECOWAS migration policy / Mariama Awumbila
  • International migration and Africa's development / Stephen O. Kwankye & John K. Anarfi
  • A historical perspective of migration from and to Ghana / John K Anarfi , Ofosu-Mensah & Emmanuel Ababio
  • Legal and policy frameworks of migration in Ghana
  • a critical review / Emmanuel Yaw Benneh
  • Environmental change and migration in Africa / Joseph Kofi Teye
  • part 2. Migration, return and social change in Ghana : a critical review. Migration and social change in Ghana / Akosua K. Darkwah & Delali Margaret Badasu
  • Migration of health professionals in Ghana / Kwesi Asabir
  • Return and reintegration of migrants to Ghana / Mary Boatema Setrana,Steve Tonah & Alex BAsiedu
  • part 3. Migration, transnationalism and changing family and gender relations. Women on the move : an historical analysis of female migration in Ghana / Mariama Awumbila & Gertude Dzifah Torvikeh
  • Transnational fosterage : the experiences of the second generation sent back home to Ghana by Ghanaian migrant parents in London / P.P.D. Asima
  • Patriachal norms in reverse remittance behaviour among Ghanaian transnational couples / Geraldine Asiwome Adiku &Alhassan Anamzoya
  • part 4. Conceptual and methodological issues in migration research. Changing conceptualisations of the effects of international migration on sending and receiving countries / Leander Kandije
  • Migration research in the context of development planning and practice / Delali M. Badasu & Akosua Darkwah.