The paper shows that the youth embark on the southward journey with the anticipation of getting employed so as to earn money to be able to remit to support and improve the wellbeing of relations back home. Net flows of less than 40,000 people are excluded from the figure. Pdf this paper revisits the old northsouth migration discourse in ghana. Ghanas internal migration is primarily a northsouth phenomenon established well before the census started officially recording migration. Contemporary female migration in ghana demographic research. For instance the traditional southnorth migration is giving way to southsouth. Pdf the purpose of this paper is to determine the importance of the environment as a driver of northsouth migration in. The monograph on migration in ghana is one of the additional eight.
The purpose of this paper is to determine the importance of the environment as a driver of northsouth migration in ghana. Almost one in every five people born in northern ghana is living in southern ghana. Centre for migration studies cms at the university of ghana. Dagara migration the dagara migration system is part of a larger pattern of northsouth migration in ghana see figure 3. The purpose of this paper is to determine the importance of the environment as a driver of north. This paper examines the dynamics of northsouth migration of the youth and resulting remittances in ghana using accra and kumasi as study areas. This is the case between the 1910 and 1960 censuses and in the last intercensal period 19842000. Interviews with 203 migrant farmers suggest that migration from the north to the south is, to a large extent, environmentally induced. Increasing population growth in northern ghana is an indication of reduced northsouth migration and.
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