The Double Engagement: Transnationalism and Integration. Ghanaian Migrants’ Lives Between Ghana and The Netherlands

References

• Amponsah , K. 1977 . Topics of West-African Traditional Religion , Accra : Adwinsa Publications .
   Google Scholar
• Arhin , K. 1994 . ‘The economic implications of transformations in Akan funeral rites’ . Africa , 64 ( 3 ) : 307 – 22 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Arhinful , D.K. 2001 . ‘We Think of Them’. How Ghanaian Migrants in Amsterdam Assist Relatives at Home , 62 Leiden : African Studies Centre, Research Report .
   Google Scholar
• Black , R. , King , R. and Tiemoko , R. 2003 . Migration, Return and the Small Enterprise Development in Ghana: A Route out of Poverty? , Brighton : University of Sussex, Sussex Centre for Migration Research Working Paper 9 .
   Google Scholar
• Choucri , N. 1986 . ‘The hidden economy: a new view of remittances in the Arab world’ . World Development , 14 ( 4 ) : 697 – 712 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• De Witte , M. 2001 . Long Live the Dead! Changing Funeral Celebrations in Asante, Ghana , Amsterdam : Askant Academic Publishers .
   Google Scholar
• Foner , N. 1997 . ‘What's new about transnationalism? New York immigrants today and at the turn of the century’ . Diaspora , 6 : 355 – 76 .
   Google Scholar
• Gilbert , M. 1988 . ‘The sudden death of a millionaire: conversion and consensus in a Ghanaian kingdom’ . Africa , 58 ( 3 ) : 291 – 309 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Glick Schiller , N. , Basch , L. and Blanc-Szanton , C. 1992 . Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity and Nationalism Reconsidered , New York : New York Academy Series .
   Google Scholar
• Gluckman , M. 1942 . Analysis of a Social Situation in Modern Zululand , Manchester : Manchester University Press for The Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, Rhodes-Livingstone Paper 28 .
   Google Scholar
• Kabki , M. , Mazzucato , V. and Dietz , T. 2007 . “ ‘Migrant involvement in community development: the case of the rural Ashanti Region, Ghana’ ” . In Global Migration and Development , Edited by: Van Naerssen , T. , Spaan , E. and Zoomers , A. 150 – 71 . London : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Kraan , M. 2001 . Blijven of teruggaan? Een sociologische analyse van potenties en problemen van Ghanezen in Amsterdam Zuid Oost , Amsterdam : Vrije Universiteit .
   Google Scholar
• Mazzucato , V. (2000) Transnational Networks and the Creation of Local Economies: Economic Principles and Institutions of Ghanaian Migrants at Home and Abroad . Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, grant number 410.13.010P. Also online at www2.fmg.uva.nl/ghanatransnet .
   Google Scholar
• Mazzucato , V. (2006) ‘Informal insurance arrangement in a transnational context: the case of Ghanaian migrants’ networks’ . Oxford: University of Oxford, paper presented at the CSAE conference ‘Reducing poverty and inequality: how can Africa be included?’, 19–21 March 2006 .
   Google Scholar
• Mazzucato , V. 2007 . The Role of Transnational Networks and Legal Status in Securing a Living: Ghanaian Migrants in the Netherlands , Oxford : University of Oxford, COMPAS Working Paper 43 .
   Google Scholar
• Mazzucato , V. (2008) ‘Simultaneity and networks in transnational migration: lessons learned from a simultaneous matched sample methodology’ , in DeWind , J. and Holdaway , J. Migration and Development Within and Across Borders: Research and Policy Perspectives on Internal and International Migration . Geneva : International Organization for Migration , in press .
   Google Scholar
• Mazzucato , V. , Kabki , M. and Smith , L. 2006 . ‘Transnational migration and the economy of funerals: changing practices in Ghana’ . Development and Change , 37 ( 5 ) : 1044 – 69 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mazzucato , V. , van den Boom , B. and Nsowah-Nuamah , N.N.N. 2005 . “ ‘The impact of international remittances on local living standards: evidence for households and rural communities in Ghana’ ” . In At Home In The World? International Migration and Development in Contemporary Ghana and West Africa , Edited by: Manuh , T. 139 – 52 . Accra : Sub-Saharan Africa Press .
   Google Scholar
• Nimako , K. 1993 . Nieuwkomers in een ‘gevestigde’ samenleving: een analyse van de ghanese gemeenschap in ZuidOost , Amsterdam : Gemeente Amsterdam Zuidoost .
   Google Scholar
• Nimako , K. 2000 . “ ‘De ghanese gemeenschap: van migranten tot etnische minderheid’ ” . In Afrikanen in Nederland , Edited by: Van Kessel , I. and Tellegen , N. 165 – 81 . Amsterdam : KIT .
   Google Scholar
• Portes , A. , Guarnizo , L. and Landolt , P. 1999 . ‘The study of transnationalism: pitfalls and promise of an emergent research field’ . Ethnic and Racial Studies , 22 ( 2 ) : 217 – 37 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pries , L. (2002) ‘The spatial spanning of the social: transnationalism as a challenge and chance for social sciences’ . Bochum: Ruhr University, paper presented at ‘Transnationalism: New configurations of the social and the space’, 6–7 September 2002 .
   Google Scholar
• Ratha , D. (2003) ‘Workers’ remittances: an important and stable source of external development finance’ , in Global Development Finance 2003 . Washington : World Bank , 157 – 75 .
   Google Scholar
• Rattray , R.S. 1927 . Religion and Art in Ashanti , Oxford : Clarendon Press .
   Google Scholar
• Roodenburg , H. , Euwals , R. and ter Rele , H. 2003 . Immigration and the Dutch Economy , The Hague : CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis .
   Google Scholar
• Rouse , R. 1995 . ‘Questions of identity. personhood and collectivity in transnational migration to the United States’ . Critique of Anthropology , 15 ( 4 ) : 351 – 80 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Russell , S. 1986 . ‘Remittances from international migration: a review in perspective’ . World Development , 14 ( 4 ) : 677 – 96 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sarpong , P.K. 1974 . Ghana in Retrospect: Some Aspects of Ghanaian Culture , Accra : Ghanaian Publishing Corporation .
   Google Scholar
• Taylor , E. 1999 . ‘The new economics of labour migration and the role of remittances in the migration process’ . International Migration , 37 ( 1 ) : 63 – 88 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Twum-Baah , K.A. 2005 . “ ‘Volume and characteristics of international Ghanaian migration’ ” . In At Home in the World? International Migration and Development in Contemporary Ghana and West Africa , Edited by: Manuh , T. 55 – 77 . Accra : Sub-Saharan Africa Press .
   Google Scholar
• Van Amersfoort , H. 2001 . Transnationalisme, moderne diaspora's en sociale cohesie , Amsterdam : Instituut voor Migratie- en Ethnische Studies .
   Google Scholar
• Van der Geest , S . 1995 . ‘Old people and funerals in a rural Ghanaian community: ambiguities in family care’ . Southern African Journal of Gerontology , 4 ( 2 ) : 33 – 40 .
   Google Scholar
• Van der Geest , S. 2000 . ‘Funerals for the living: conversations with elderly people in Kwahu, Ghana’ . African Studies Review , 43 ( 3 ) : 103 – 29 .
   Google Scholar
• Van Kessel , I. and Tellegen , N. 2000 . Afrikanen in Nederland , Amsterdam : KIT .
   Google Scholar
• Vertovec , S. 1999 . ‘Conceiving and researching transnationalism’ . Ethnic and Racial Studies , 22 ( 2 ) : 447 – 62 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vertovec , S. 2001 . ‘Transnationalism and identity’ . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies , 27 ( 4 ) : 573 – 82 .
   Google Scholar
• Wilson , G. 1941 . The Economics of Detribalization in Northern Rhodesia , Livingstone , Northern Rhodesia : Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, Rhodes-Livingstone Paper 5 .
   Google Scholar
• Wilson , G. 1942 . The Economics of Detribalization in Northern Rhodesia , Livingstone , Northern Rhodesia : Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, Rhodes-Livingstone Paper 6 .
   Google Scholar