Introduction Migration among Ghanaians has a long history. Oral traditions hold that most of
the people constituting the Akan groups migrated to their present areas from the north, while …

While the migration of Africans is an age‐old phenomenon, the most documented aspect
has been rural‐urban migration. Better life chances in the urban areas, compared with the …

This study examines the causes of migration from Ghana to the United States of America
(US). It explores the internal and external factors that motivate Ghanaians to travel to the US …

The major thrust or aim of this study, which focuses on the Ghanaian immigrant population
living in Metropolitan Toronto (which has the largest proportion of Ghanaians in Canada) …

Over the past four decades, Accra has witnessed an increasing influx of young women who
migrate to the city with the sole aim of carrying goods. This paper examines the migration …

This study examines the spatial distribution, intra-urban mobility, and housing choices of
Ghanaians in Toronto, to illustrate the residential behaviour of a recent group of African …

This paper provides evidence designed to cast doubt on whether rural-urban migration is
quantitatively the most important form of migration in Ghana, and demonstrates that rural to …

Estimates are that more than ten per cent of the Ghanaian population now lives abroad, in
response to economic and social crisis in Ghana for more than two decades now. Toronto in …

Migration in Ghana, like migration anywhere else in the world, is in response to imbalances
in development existing between origin and destination areas. It is also a strategy for …

Migration is an enduring theme of human history and is considered one of the defining
global issues of the twenty-first century. In Ghana, as in other parts of Africa, migration is …