Research output per year
Research output per year
Project Details
Description
This research programme is an exploration of how African migrant associations are mobilised and involved in their countries of origin. The ambition is to add new empirical and theoretical knowledge on the role of Africans living outside their countries of origin - henceforth referred to as diasporas - as agents of change.
Funded by: Danish Council for Social Science Research
Funded by: Danish Council for Social Science Research
| Status | Finished |
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| Effective start/end date | 01/01/2008 → 31/12/2011 |
Collaborative partners
- Danish Institute for International Studies (lead)
- Institute for African Studies, University of Ghana (Project partner)
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Policy Spectacles: Promoting Migration-Development Scenarios in Ghana
Kleist, N., 2015, Mobility Makes States: Migration and Power in Africa. Quirk, J. & Vigneswaran, D. (eds.). 1 ed. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, p. 125-146Research output: Contribution to Book, Anthology, Report › Book Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Pushing development: a case study of highly skilled male return migration to Ghana
Kleist, N., 2015, Africa's return migrants: the new developers?. Åkesson, L. & Eriksson Baaz, M. (eds.). London: Zed Books, p. 64-86 22 p.Research output: Contribution to Book, Anthology, Report › Book Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Agents of Change: Staging and Governing Diasporas and the State in Africa
Kleist, N. (Editor) & Turner, S. (Editor), 2013, Taylor & Francis / Tuttle-Mori Agency. 192 p. (African Studies; No. 2, Vol. 72).Research output: Book, Anthology, Thesis, Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
Activities
- 2 Presentation/Speaker at conference, seminar, workshop etc.
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Exploring return mobilities to Ghana: From transnational return to precarious migration projects
Kleist, N. (Speaker)
21 Sept 2018Activity: Talk or Presentation › Presentation/Speaker at conference, seminar, workshop etc.
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Mobility Makes States: Migration and Power in Africa
Kleist, N. (Speaker)
2 Nov 2015Activity: Talk or Presentation › Presentation/Speaker at conference, seminar, workshop etc.