Co-creation of transnational livelihoods through ‘door-to door’ shipping operations along the Ghana-UK migration corridor

dc.contributor.authorAdiku, G.A.
dc.contributor.authorKandilige, L.
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-14T08:59:29Z
dc.date.available2022-01-14T08:59:29Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractTransnational approaches have led to conceptualisations of migration as a phenomenon that is embedded within globalisation processes. Overwhelmingly, emphasis is placed on the transnational connections migrants maintain with their relatives. Technological advancements have facilitated sustained communication, remittance transfers and return visits between migrants and their relatives. However, the role of shipping companies, as transnational actors based in destination countries with partners in origin countries, that help migrants and their relatives to co-create/maintain their livelihoods has been overlooked. Drawing on data from Ghanaian migrants in the UK who send in-kind remittances, their relatives in Ghana who receive in-kind remittances, Ghanaian migrant-owned shipping businesses in the UK and their partners in Ghana, this paper fills that gap in the literature by discussing the operation of ‘door-to-door’ shipping businesses as a type of crucial transnational migrant entrepreneurship that empowers migrants from the ’Global South’ and their relatives to overcome transnational livelihood making challenges.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2021.1901674
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/37626
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Groupen_US
dc.subjectTransnational livelihood strategiesen_US
dc.subjecttransnational migrant entrepreneurshipen_US
dc.subjectmigrantsen_US
dc.subjectrelativesen_US
dc.subjectGhanaen_US
dc.subjectUKen_US
dc.titleCo-creation of transnational livelihoods through ‘door-to door’ shipping operations along the Ghana-UK migration corridoren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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