African Migrations Workshop 2007, Ghana

'Understanding Migration Dynamics in the Continent' Accra, Ghana

18-21 September 2007

Convened by the Centre for Migration Studies (CMS), University of Ghana and the International Migration Institute (IMI), University of Oxford.

This first African Migrations Workshop exemplified the enormous added value of facilitating communication between researchers studying African migrations. Disciplinary boundaries were continuously crossed during the workshop as participants exchanged views from many different perspectives. Simultaneous translation between French and English also made it possible for researchers to speak and listen across the linguistic divide. The workshop also provided an important platform to early-career African scholars to present their empirical work.

• Abstracts of workshop papers
  
• Workshop programme
  
• Workshop report (English version - pdf file)
  
• Workshop report (French translation - pdf file)
  
• Participant list
  
• Photos
  

BACKGROUND

The Centre for Migration Studies (CMS) at the University of Ghana was established in 2006 to provide a focus for migration research in the university. It is in the process of developing collaboration and links with various institutions and migration researchers across Africa as it builds up the curriculum for teaching and its research agenda. The International Migration Institute has been actively building links with migration researchers and institutions across Africa and it hopes to work in collaboration with these researchers to establish new migration research initiatives.

LIST OF PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS - read abstracts

ABESSOLO NGUEMA, Jean-Roger,

La configuration de l’asile: une technologie politique du contrôle des conduites migrantes rwandaises au Cameroun.

ADESINA Oluwakemi,

"Checking Out": Migration, Popular Culture and the articulation and formation of class identity.

BERRIANE Johara,

Les étudiants subsahariens au Maroc : des migrants parmi d’autres? 

BOUBAKRI Hassen,

Les migrations internationales en Afrique du Nord: Dimensions géographiques et politiques (Évolution des modèles, des catégories et des destinations)

(English version)

BOYER Florence,

Aborder le continuum des mobilites spatiales - proposition d'un protocole de mesure des migrations au sahel.

CHAABITA Rachid,

L’échange international et migrations internationales : soubassements théoriques et enseignements de l’analyse descriptive et d’applications économétriques

CLOTTEY, John and AGYEI Ezekiel,

Operationalizing ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement of People among the Member States: Issues of Convergence, Divergence and Prospects for Sub-Regional Integration     

DIAGNE Alioune, BEAUCHEMIN Cris, LESSAULT David,

Circulation internationale et développement urbain à Dakar :Fondements méthodologiques et résultats attendus

FALL Papa Demba,

La dynamique migratoire ouest africaine entre ruptures et continuités

(English version)

FREGENE Bernadette Tosan,

Profile of Fishermen Migration in Nigeria and Implications for a Sustainable Livelihood

HAUPT Iriann,

Evolving patterns of Migration to Southern Sudan

KONAN Sylvere, KOUAKOU Auguste K., NAMA Eliel K.,

Déterminants socio-économiques de l’intégration des réfugiés en Côte d’Ivoire : Essai de modélisation à partir d’un échantillon de réfugiés libériens dans le District d’Abidjan

KWEKA Opportuna,

Rethinking the African Refugees’ Movements and Caring Practices in the Post Structural Adjustment Program Era

LESETEDI Gwen and MODIE-MOROKA Tirelo,

Reverse Xenophobia: Immigrants Attitudes to Citizens in Botswana

LUTUTALA Bernard Mumpasi,

Les Migrations en Afrique Centrale: caractéristiques, enjeux et rôles dans l’intégration et le développement des pays de la région

(English version)

NDIONE Babacar,

Territoires urbains et reseaux sociaux: les processus de migration internationale dans les quartiers de la ville senegalaise de Kaolack

NYAME Frank and GRANT J. Andrew,

Implications of migration patterns associated with the mining and minerals industry in Ghana

RAIMUNDO Ines,

The nomadic status of African people in Southern Region: a hindrance of development or a tactic for development?

(French version)

SIMATELE Danny,

Kwacha ngwee:a snapshot at Zambia’s contemporary migration patterns

TADELE Faleke,

An Overview of the State of International Migration in Horn and East Africa

(French version)

TSHIBAMBE Germain Ngoie,

Les femmes en mouvement : Morphologie d’une catégorie émergente dans la mobilité africaine. Cas de la République démocratique du Congo

VIGNESWARAN Darshan,

Lost in Space: Residential Sampling and Johannesburg's Forced Migrants

PRESENTATIONS

The Southern African Migration Project
Presentation (pdf) by Dr Jonathan Crush, Director of SAMP