Migration, Marriage and Modernity: Motives, Impacts and Negotiations of Rural-Urban Circulation amongst Young Women in Northern Ghana

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Marriage and migration

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Ghana