Ghanas internal migration is primarily a northsouth phenomenon established well before the census started officially recording migration. Dagara migration the dagara migration system is part of a larger pattern of northsouth migration in ghana see figure 3. Pdf this paper revisits the old northsouth migration discourse in ghana. The purpose of this paper is to determine the importance of the environment as a driver of north. A study on northsouth migration in ghana geest, 2011 concluded that the amount of rainfall and crop yields were negatively correlated with migration at significance levels of one per cent and. Net flows of less than 40,000 people are excluded from the figure. Contemporary female migration in ghana demographic research. Pdf the purpose of this paper is to determine the importance of the environment as a driver of northsouth migration in. Increasing population growth in northern ghana is an indication of reduced northsouth migration and. Centre for migration studies cms at the university of ghana. This paper examines the dynamics of northsouth migration of the youth and resulting remittances in ghana using accra and kumasi as study areas. 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. 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.
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