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. Perspectives of nandom migrants in accra article pdf available december 2014 with 654 reads how we measure reads. Urban migration, and urban poverty in ghana, funded by the uks.
For instance the traditional southnorth migration is giving way to southsouth. Ghanas internal migration is primarily a northsouth phenomenon established well before the census started officially recording migration. Almost one in every five people born in northern ghana is living in southern ghana. The purpose of this paper is to determine the importance of the environment as a driver of northsouth migration in ghana. 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. 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. 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. Contemporary female migration in ghana demographic research. Increasing population growth in northern ghana is an indication of reduced northsouth migration and. This paper examines the dynamics of northsouth migration of the youth and resulting remittances in ghana using accra and kumasi as study areas.
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