International Migration and Africa’s Development

Kwankye, Stephen O.; Anarfi, John K.

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“…However, it is worth noting that some head porters had multiple reasons for their involvement in porting. Similar results were also obtained by [11,12,13]. Other studies established that lack of education, poverty, and socio-cultural factors accounted for some of the reasons why young female adolescents migrate to the South to engage in head porting popularly called in Ghana 'kayayie' [6].…”

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Access to Healthcare and Health Seeking Behaviour among Female Head Porters in Kumasi, Ghana: The Impact on Public Health

Amoah¹

2021

TIJPH

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Given the nodality of Kumasi, the city attracts migrants from all parts of Ghana into its market space. Notable among such migrants are the female head porters popularly called “Kayayie”. As a result of the expensive rents in urban space, female head porters live in kiosks, verandas, and squatters in any available space. This exposes the porters to a myriad of environmental and health risks amidst poor health-seeking behaviour. This study sought to examine access to health and health-seeking behaviour of female head porters in Kumasi. The study adopted quantitative methods in collecting and analyzing data. The primary units of the investigation were female head porters. The study used a sample size of 250 respondents who were interviewed through self-administered questionnaires. Findings show that only 25.2% of the respondents had access to healthcare, as about 74.8% lacked access to basic healthcare. The majority of those who had access to healthcare (54%) go to the health facility by foot, while about 42.9% access the facility by car. Though 71.4% of the head porters were subscribers of NHIS, only 25.2% resort to professional healthcare givers when they are sick. Generally, access to health and health-seeking was poor among the female head porters. The study recommended the expansion of health facilities, especially in poor urban communities, and education on health-seeking among head porters. Keywords: Female head porters, Health seeking behaviour, Health conditions, Migration; Urban poor.

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confidence: 81%

Access to Healthcare and Health Seeking Behaviour among Female Head Porters in Kumasi, Ghana: The Impact on Public Health

Amoah¹

2021

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“…Incidentally, the findings show that most Kayayei are staying longer than previously reported (see Kwankye et al, 2007). Nonetheless, they adopt complex strategies to remain deeply embedded and be responsive to their kinsmen and obediently remit on demand (Agarwal et al, 1997).…”

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confidence: 53%

“…This stereotypically portrays labour mobility (such as rural–urban migrants) as generally comprising uneducated, unskilled labour who remain glued to live and work manually and informally for survival (Kwankye et al, 2007). These migrants are seen as unable to break through the barriers of social and legal marginalisation that trap them in cliental forms of political incorporation and contribute very little or nothing at all to the urban economy (Meagher, 2011).…”

Section: Labour Mobility and Creative Entrepreneurismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Theoretically, most earlier studies were tied in 19th century concepts and models (Massey et al, 1998: 432), and also were divided about the causes of population mobility. Among the assigned causes range from economic motivation (Oberhauser and Yeboah, 2011) to organised or ‘rhythmic’ movements, normally underpinned by a way of life such as pastoral nomads, fishermen with seasonal rhythm (Kwankye et al, 2007). Recent scholars criticise earlier theories as being ‘incoherent and isolated’ (De Haas, 2010; Hagen-Zanker, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

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‘Informal Exceptionalism?’ Labour Migrants’ Creative Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Livelihoods in Accra, Ghana

Oteng-Ababio

Tanle

Amoah

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Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Intra- and inter-regional migration is widely described. Prior studies have attribute varied reasons for this development including the quest for greener pastures and unequal development in northern Ghana. What has escaped critical scrutiny is some migrants’ ability to escape extreme rural poverty, albeit in harsh urban environment. Such a missing gap can potentiate high policy failures, hence the need for academic attention. Using a mixed method, we focus on two informal daily livelihoods as exemplars – exceptionalism – in Accra. We see their embedded organisational vitality and dynamic networks as illuminating for good livelihood practices, proper city governance and fostering economic empowerment. We call on city authorities to take cognisance of such complexities and heterogeneity of production–labour relations, failure of which can spell doom for policies ostensibly initiated to curb migration, as they are likely to be underpinned by factual inaccuracies and may result in ill-fated interventions.

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“…Evidence for this emerges from a closer examination of the children’s work as load carriers and porters. Head carrying in particular has a long tradition in West Africa and in Ghana; its roots can be traced to male migrants from the Sahel (Kwankye, Anarfi, Addoquaye Tagoe, & Castaldo, 2007) and its institutionalisation under colonial labour policies (Ofosu-Kusi, 2009). From the Hausa word for load, the practice of kaya declined following independence but has grown exponentially with informalisation, particularly among young migrants to urban areas.…”

Section: Load Carriers and Portersmentioning

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Bringing the street back in: Considering strategy, contingency and relative good fortune in street children’s access to paid work in Accra

Mizen

2018

The Sociological Review

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A sociology of street children has emerged defined by its rejection of the dominant narratives of child welfare organisations that identify the street as the root cause of children's immiseration and improper socialisation. In its place, sociological analysis has undermined the value of conceptualising street children as a coherent group on the street and in a parallel move has looked to conceptually reposition street children away from assumptions of passivity and neglect, towards a foundational insistence that the starting place for analysis is the positioning of street children as active and strategic social agents. It is the adequacy of this latter concern that is the focus of this article. By reintroducing the location of children within the social relations of the informal street economy, this article draws upon extensive and long-term qualitative research examining the lives of street children in Accra, Ghana. The argument here is that sociological notions of strategic action and efficacious agency seem ill-suited to accounting for the dilemmas and difficulties that street children's quests for paid work inevitably involve. Rather, it is relative good fortune within the radical uncertainty of the social relations of the informal street economy that seems much more appropriate to accounting for how these children are integrated into work.

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International Migration and Africa’s Development

Cited by 6 publications

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Access to Healthcare and Health Seeking Behaviour among Female Head Porters in Kumasi, Ghana: The Impact on Public Health

Access to Healthcare and Health Seeking Behaviour among Female Head Porters in Kumasi, Ghana: The Impact on Public Health

‘Informal Exceptionalism?’ Labour Migrants’ Creative Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Livelihoods in Accra, Ghana

Bringing the street back in: Considering strategy, contingency and relative good fortune in street children’s access to paid work in Accra

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