Full Description
There are only a few studies that analyze the complex relationship between Migration and development in Africa. The book presents the main trends in African migration since the last two decades. It analyzes the major migration trends, the various migration hubs across the continent and the underlying factors explaining the changing nature of migration across the continent. A few of the chapters in the book examine the phenomenon of migration from a national perspective by focusing on migration trends in countries such as Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, and Nigeria. Two chapters examine the migration links between Africa and Europe with one of them focusing on the political links between Ghana and the Netherlands while the other focuses on economic exchanges between the Cameroonian diaspora in Germany and selected groups and organizations in Cameroon.
The uniqueness of this book lies in the varied disciplinary viewpoints used by the authors in explaining the phenomenon of migration and development in Africa. The authors are specialists in the fields of sociology, anthropology, geography, history, philosophy and migration studies. Examining migration from so many different perspectives enriches the analysis and brings in new insights that would otherwise have been missing with the use of a single disciplinary perspective.
The book recommends the need for policy coordination by national governments of both origin and destination countries to manage the size and composition of migrants. Most migrant-receiving countries prefer to receive professionals and persons with the required skills and training while keeping out the bulk of untrained and lowly-skilled persons. The result of this is that most migrants leave their countries and enter their destination countries illegally, swelling the numbers of undocumented immigrants.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction, by Steve Tonah and Mary Boatemaa Setrana
Chapter 2: Political Participation Beyond National Borders: The Case of Ghanaian Political Party Branches in the Netherlands, by Richard Kwabena Owusu Kyei and Mary Boatemaa Setrana
Chapter 3: Transnational Migration among Migrants from Cameroon, by Danielle Minteu Kadje
Chapter 4: Partnering for Rural Development in Ghana: The Case of Ghanaian Hometown Associations in the United Kingdom, by Leander Kandilige
Chapter 5: Comparative Analysis of Educational Performance of Children from Migrant and Non-Migrant Households in Ghana, by Theophilus Kwabena Abutima
Chapter 6: Brain Drain or Brain Gain? The Contribution of Skilled Migrants to Development in Kenya, by Jane Mwanji
Chapter 7: The Repatriation of Destitute Nigerians in Colonial Ghana, by Omon Merry Osiki
Chapter 8: From Seasonal Migrants to Settlers: Climate Change and Permanent Migration to the Transitional Zone of Ghana, by Peter Bilson Obour, Kwadwo Owusu, and Joseph K. Teye
Chapter 9: Hindered Pathways towards Development? West African Mobilities and European Borders in the Twenty-First Century, by Joris Schapendonk
Chapter 10: Mapping Out the Role of Labor Migrants in Ghana's Oil and Gas Economy, by Sylvia Esther Gyan and Rabiu K. B. Asante
