Lexington Books
Pages: 210
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-1683-9 • Hardback • August 2017 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-4985-1684-6 • eBook • August 2017 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
Steve Tonah is professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Ghana.
Mary Boatemaa Setrana is lecturer at the Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana.
John A. Arthur was professor of sociology and anthropology at University of Minnesota Duluth.
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
Combining sharp theoretical and empirical analyses with detailed contemporary and historical insights, this book examines the main features and implications of the migration-development nexus in the African context. The book is remarkably straightforward and lucidly written. Indeed, it is hard to know what to admire most about it— its multidisciplinary approach, its thorough analysis, or the sheer elegance with which all the chapters come together in a coherent whole. Every serious student of migration will need to read this book.
— Joseph Mensah, York University
A book on the subject of migration and development can only catch the attention of a variety of readers if it is innovative in a number of ways, and this is the strength of this volume. It has diverse topics that have been carefully selected to cover the subject comprehensively. The reader will find the variety of the disciplinary backgrounds of the authors and methodologies employed as the volume’s greatest strength and attractiveness. The issues examined include longstanding ones such as the brain drain and brain gain. The discussion on rural development resulting from diaspora associational activities is a specific area in the migration and development discourse that will be welcome by policy makers. Some concepts that have recently emerged or are receiving greater attention now in the field of study are not excluded in this volume, and they make it interesting: associational life of migrants, political participation of trans-migrants, repatriation, climate change and migration, among others. The volume is relevant to both the policy maker and academic researcher that need to know more about the migration-development nexus apart from the development effects of migration.
— Delali Badasu, Director, Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana