Forced migration and transformation of refugees
| dc.contributor.author | Coffie, A. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-26T10:01:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-02-26T10:01:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-04-17 | |
| dc.description | School of social sciences colloquium | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | There has been much talk about the transformational experience of refugee hosting communities, but relatively little about the impact of these societies on the forced migrants. Using the case of Liberian refugees in Ghana, this paper examines the transformational experience of refugees during the forced migration experience. The paper specifically examines how the structures of forced migration interact with the refugee's agency to transform both the resources of the refugees and the structures of forced migration. The research argues that the resource transformational experience of refugees is a result of the complex interplay between the structures of forced migration and the refugee's agency. Drawing on social constructivism's mutual constitution of structure and agents, the study highlights the various structures that refugees encounter as having different influences on different agents (refugees). It also provides a context within which to understand and examine how refugees as agents operate within structures of constraint and opportunity, which more or less likely leads to resource gains and losses | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/34980 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Ghana | en_US |
| dc.subject | refugees | en_US |
| dc.subject | migration | en_US |
| dc.subject | communities | en_US |
| dc.subject | constructivism | en_US |
| dc.title | Forced migration and transformation of refugees | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |
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