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Item Experiences of African student migrants in Moscow”: Understanding the uses of digital technologies for social services during the COVID-19 pandemic(Cogent Education, 2022) Anamoa-Pokoo, S.; Urzha, O.A.; Sika-Bright, S.; Badasu, D.M.Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has attracted a plethora of research from medical-related disciplines other than sociological and migration disciplines . While a significant number of research papers have considered the impacts of the COVID- 19 lockdowns and school closures on students, their observations are not directly applicable to the over 5.3 million international students across the globe. The purpose of this study is to understand how African Student Migrants (ASMs) used technologies for social services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Moscow. This study adopted a qualitative research approach to understand the use of digital technologies for social services among 40 ASMs sampled through purposive and snowballing techniques. The findings established that, the use of digital technologies by ASMs played an instrumental role in social services such as accommodation, learning and purchasing patterns rather than social communication, religious or cultural practices, psychological and physical health, and dieting during the COVID- 19 pandemic. For policy-level recommendations, tech-savvy developers, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Educational Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the African Union (AU) should collaborate and create digital technologies that are suitable for social services; devise an information platform to capture basic information about ASMs that will enable them to streamline welfare stimulus packages essential to their survival in times of pandemics. This will also serve as a coping mechanism for society to prepare for new social emergencies and use digital technologies to calibrate international education and inform future policies on public health, school closures and mobility beyond borders.Item Remittance flow to households of internal migrants in Ekumfi District of the Central Region, Ghana(Ghana Social Science Journal, 2018-12) Anamoa-Pokoo, S.; Badasu, D.M.Migration has continued to receive increasing attention in development planning and practice over the past two or three decades and has attained a global recognition as it is included in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the global framework for development. Remittances has been considered as a highly likelihood outcome of migration and as an important element of the migration-development nexus. Remittance transfer has also been of significant importance to the economic wellbeing of migrant workers, their households, and their sending communities as well as their countries of origin. However, the discourse on migration and research has largely focused on international transfers to the neglect of flows within countries from internal migrants even though some evidence suggest that the volume of remittances from internal migrants is probably higher than those from international migrants. The present study examined the flow of remittances to households in one of Ghana’s most deprived areas in the rather more developed southern part of the country. It seeks to fill the gap in knowledge about remittance flows to the area and southern Ghana for that matter. A mixed research method was employed for the study. A total of 377 households with an absent internal migrant were selected for the quantitative component of the study. In-depth interview was the main qualitative research technique used. The findings indicate that remittances have been sent to the households through formal and informal channels, mostly on monthly and quarterly basis. The in-kind remittances (mostly food stuff) are sent mostly throughinformal channels by bus, relative, friend or given by the migrants when on visit. The majority of the cash flows were through formal channels and are less than GH₵100 sent mostly on monthly or quarterly basis. The relatively low amount of remittances sent is attributed to the low skilled or low educational qualification of the migrants and the consequent low income earning activities they engage in at their destination areas. But a large percentage of the households also receive between GH₵300 to GH₵499 on quarterly or yearly basis while some receive GH₵500 occasionally. The remittance flows contribute to the wellbeing of the households of the migrants at their origin just as transfers from international sources do.