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African Perspectives on Human Mobility

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Four year programme 2008–2012

Four countres: DRC, Ghana, Morocco and Nigeria

Funded by the MacArthur Foundation

Despite an unprecedented growth in international migration research, little has focused on migration from the perspective of developing countries. Understanding of migration patterns across large parts of Africa is particularly limited.

A gold forge where Malians work in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo

This project explored alternative conceptions of human mobility based on empirical research in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Morocco and Nigeria.

A series of case studies, designed and conducted in partnership with African researchers, set out to generate new data, methodologies and conceptual frameworks. The project was also designed to help develop the capacity of African institutions to undertake state-of-the-art migration research.

 

 

 

 

Our team

Collaboration and funding

Related research themes

Migration has fundamental implications for development and social change in destination and origin countries. We analyse how migration affects social, cultural and economic change as well as patterns of inequality. We focus on understanding why migration has more positive outcomes in some contexts, while more negative outcomes in others.
Development, inequality and change