‘Informal Exceptionalism?’ Labour Migrants’ Creative Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Livelihoods in Accra, Ghana
| Autor: | Martin Oteng-Ababio, Augustine Tanle, Louis Kusi, Ernest Bagson, Samuel Twumasi Amoah, Enoch Akwasi Kosoe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Entrepreneurship
05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development 0507 social and economic geography Development Livelihood 050701 cultural studies 0506 political science Exceptionalism Globalization Urbanization Political science Development economics 050602 political science & public administration |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Asian and African Studies. 54:88-103 |
| ISSN: | 1745-2538 0021-9096 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0021909618789965 |
| Popis: | 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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