Migration and Development in Africa: Trends, Challenges, and Policy Implications (African Migration and Diaspora Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1498516831 ISBN 13: 9781498516839

Verlag: Lexington Books, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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 is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Minnesota, Duluth campus and chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1498516831
• ISBN 13: 9781498516839
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 210
• Herausgeber: Tonah Steve, Setrana Mary Boatemaa, Arthur John A.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland