Migration in a Globalizing World

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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.

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• Publié par: Sub-Saharan Publishers
• Date de parution: 21 juin 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9789988882921
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 19 Mo

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MIGRATION IN A
GLOBALIZING WORLD:
PERSPECTIVES FROM GHANA
Edited by
Mariama Awumbila
Delali Badasu
Joseph Teye
MIGRATION READER SERIESFirst published in Ghana 2018 for THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
by Sub-Saharan Publishers
P.O.Box 358
Legon-Accra
Ghana
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© University of Ghana, 2018
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Legon- Accra
Ghana
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website:http://www.ug.edu.gh
ISBN: 978-9988-8829-1-4ISBN 978-9988-647-11-7
Editorial Board:
Prof. (Emerita) Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu
Prof. Ama de-Graft Aikins
Prof. Kwadwo A. Koram
Prof. C. Charles Mate-Kole
Prof. Joshua Abor
Prof. Nana Aba Amfo
Prof. Eric Sampane-Donkor
Social Sciences Series Editor Prof. Ama de-Graft Aikins
Copyright Notice
All rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored
in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written
permission of the University of Ghana or the publishers.Contents
Foreword vi
Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Mariama Awumbila, Joseph Kofi Teye & Delali Margaret Badasu
PART 1:
MIGRATION PATTERNS AND TRENDS IN AFRICA AND
IMPLICATIONS FOR MIGRATION POLICY
Chapter One 9
DYNAMICS OF INTRA-REGIONAL MIGRATION IN WEST AFRICA:
IMPLICATIONS FOR ECOWAS MIGRATION POLICY
Mariama Awumbila

Chapter Two 31
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT
Stephen O. Kwankye & John K. Anarfi
Chapter Three 51
A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF MIGRATION FROM AND TO
GHANA
John K Anarfi , Ofosu-Mensah & Emmanuel Ababio
Chapter Four 72
LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORKS OF MIGRATION IN GHANA—
A CRITICAL REVIEW
Emmanuel Yaw Benneh
Chapter Five 97
ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND MIGRATION IN AFRICA
Joseph Kofi Teye
PART 2
MIGRATION, RETURN AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN GHANA:
A CRITICAL REVIEW
Chapter Six 117
MIGRATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN GHANA
Akosua K. Darkwah & Delali Margaret Badasu
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Chapter Seven 132
MIGRATION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN GHANA
Kwesi Asabir
Chapter Eight 152
RETURN AND REINTEGRATION OF MIGRANTS TO GHANA
Mary Boatema Setrana,Steve Tonah & Alex BAsiedu
PART 3:
MIGRATION, TRANSNATIONALISM AND CHANGING
FAMILY AND GENDER RELATIONS.
Chapter Nine 171
WOMEN ON THE MOVE: AN HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF FEMALE
MIGRATION IN GHANA
Mariama Awumbila & Gertude Dzifah Torvikeh
Chapter Ten 190
TRANSNATIONAL FOSTERAGE: THE EXPERIENCES OF THE
SECOND GENERATION SENT BACK HOME TO GHANA BY
GHANAIAN MIGRANT PARENTS IN LONDON
P.P.D. Asima
Chapter Eleven 206
PATRIACHAL NORMS IN REVERSE REMITTANCE BEHAVIOUR
AMONG GHANAIAN TRANSNATIONAL COUPLES
Geraldine Asiwome Adiku &Alhassan Anamzoya
PART 4:
CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN
MIGRATION RESEARCH
Chapter Twelve 223
CHANGING CONCEPTUALISATIONS OF THE EFFECTS OF
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION ON SENDING AND RECEIVING
COUNTRIES
Leander Kandije
Chapter Thirteen 241
MIGRATION RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OFDEVELOPMENT
PLANNING AND PRACTICE
Delali M. Badasu & Akosua Darkwah
•iv• LIST OF TABLES
1.1 Stock of ECOWAS Immigrants and Emigrants 2012 16
3.1 Togo nationals born and enumerated in Ghana 58
3.2 Immigrants from other British West African Colonies 59
in 1931 by province
3.3 Aliens recorded by the 1931 census 59
4.1 Ghana; State of Migration r elated International
Conventions and Protocols as at 2011 81
4.2 Ghana; Status of ILO Conventions as at 2011 86
7.1 Number of Health practitioners in Ghana 2011-15 139
7.2 Numbers of house offi cers inducted 2011-15 140
7.3 Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana Basic Nurs- 141
ing and Midwifery Programmes Annual number of
candidates licensed(NCL) for nursing and midwifery
Institutions.
7.4 Doctors/1000 population ration, World Bank 2001 140
7.5 Trends in Early childhood Mortality rates-infants and 145
Under-fi ve Ghana 1983-2014
9.1 Distribution of Ghanaian pr ofessionals who emigrated
by year and profession 178
9.2 Sex Distribution of Ghanaians in Italy Spain and 179
Portugal
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LIST OF FIGURES
1.1 Destination of Ghanaian Migrants 2005 14
1.2 Proportion of remittances received by Ecowas coun- 22
tries 2011
1.3 Map of West Africa showing Ecowas member states 24
5.1 Environmental processes and migration 94-5
7.1 Maternal Health in Ghana before 2015 146
9.1 Ghanaian trained nurses and midwives registered in 170
the UK
9.2 Distribution of Ghanaian emigration destination by 179
sex and region
9.3 Reasons for immigration by sea 172
9.4 Emigration destination of Ghanaian women within 182
ECOWAS 2010
12.1 ODA Remittances and FDC as a % of GDP in Ghana 229
(1990-2000)
•vi•Foreword
The University of Ghana is celebrating sixty-fi ve years of its founding this
year. In all those years, lecturers and researchers of the university have
contributed in quite signifi cant ways to the development of thought and in the
analyses of critical issues for Ghanaian and African societies. The
celebration of the anniversary provides an appropriate opportunity for a refl ection
on the contributions that Legon academics have made to the intellectual
development of Ghana and Africa. That is the aim of the University of
Ghana Readers Project.
In the early years of the University, all the material that was used to teach
students came largely from the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe.
Most of the thinking in all disciplines was largely Eurocentric. The material
that was used to teach students was mainly European, as indeed were many
of the academics teaching the students. The norms and standards against
which students were assessed were infl uenced largely by European values.
The discussions that took place in seminar and lecture rooms were driven
largely by what Africa could learn from Europe.
The 1960s saw a major ‘revisionism’ in African intellectual development
as young African academics began to question received ideas against a
backdrop of changing global attitudes in the wake of political independence.
Much serious writing was done by African academics as their contribution
to the search for new ways of organizing their societies. African intellectuals
contributed to global debates in their own right and sometimes developed
their own material for engaging with their students and the wider society.
Since the late 1970s universities in the region and their academics have
struggled to make their voices heard in national and global debates. Against
a new backdrop of economic stagnation and political disarray, many of the
ideas for managing their economies and societies have come from outside.
These ideas have often come with signifi cant fi nancial backing channelled
through international organizations and governments. During the period,
African governments saw themselves as having no reason to expect or ask
for any intellectual contribution from their own academics. This was very
much the case in Ghana.
The story is beginning to change in universities in many African
countries. The University of Ghana Readers Project is an attempt
to document the different ideas and debates that have infl uenced
various disciplines over many years through collections of short
essays and articles. They show the work of Legon academics and their
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collabo- rators in various disciplines as they have sought to introduce their
research communities and students to new ideas. Our expectation is that
this will mark a new beginning of solid engagement between Legon and
other academics as they document their thoughts and contribu- tions to the
continuing search for new ideas to shape our world.
We gratefully acknowledge a generous grant from the Carnegie
Corporation of New York that has made the publication of this series of Readers
possible.
Ernest Aryeetey
Vice-Chancellor, University of Ghana.
Legon, August 2013.
•viii•CONTRIBUTORS
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 infl uencing 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.
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,