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Changing Patterns of Ghanaian Migration

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This chapter explores trends in migration and return from Ghana between 1975–2008. Taking advantage of the MAFE (Migration between Africa and Europe) data, it offers rare quantitative evidence on the characteristics of migration from Ghana. The results show that migrant realities are complex, change over time and can involve back and forth movements between countries. Migrants are found to frequently circulate between a destination country and Ghana, be it for visits or for longer periods but without a definitive return. This suggests evidence of transnational lifestyles. Nevertheless, the opportunity to return is not equal for all migrants as our results show.

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    The only estimate that exists is in Mazzucato (2008) where the undocumented population was estimated to be around 20,000 in the year 2000.

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    For notes on methodology and all details on MAFE samples see Chap. 2 in this volume.

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  1. Research and Documentation Centre (WODC), The Hague, The Netherlands

    Djamila Schans

  2. Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Djamila Schans & Valentina Mazzucato

  3. Centre de recherche en démographie, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Bruno Schoumaker & Marie-Laurence Flahaux

  4. LPED, Institut de recherche pour le développement, Marseille, France

    Marie-Laurence Flahaux

  5. Institut national d’études démographiques (INED), F-75020, Paris, France

    Marie-Laurence Flahaux

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Schans, D., Mazzucato, V., Schoumaker, B., Flahaux, ML. (2018). Changing Patterns of Ghanaian Migration. In: Beauchemin, C. (eds) Migration between Africa and Europe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69569-3_10

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