The first-ever South-South Migration Network workshop was held in Ghana with a call on migration experts to support the agenda of changing the negative narratives about migration.
The two-days event sets the agenda for the African hub of the south-south migration network.
It was coordinated by the Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana and University of Cape Town, South Africa and was attended by migration academics, researchers, activists and affiliates from Ghana, Kenya, Cape Town, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, and Ethiopia, among others.
The aim is to build a Network drawing on the work (research and interventions) carried out by individuals and collective, establish an Africa-based collective of scholars on south-south migration, including practitioners and activists that takes seriously the task of decentralising knowledge production on migration broadly, and south-south migration.
The Network would also enhance advocacy around south-south migration and protection of mobile populations within national, regional, continental and global frameworks.
Professor Mary Boatemaa Setrana, Director of the Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana, said the workshop would take stock of the knowledge produced by previous and existing research for the purposes of comparative analysis with the purpose of making intellectual contribution to the field of south-south migration.
She said In 2018, over 80 migration researchers, teachers, activists and students, out of which a greater percentage were from the Global South, came together to research on migration, inequality and development in the Global South.
Dr Faisal Garba, University of Cape Town and African Institute Sharjah, announced that the network also sought to provide space for reflections on the commonalities and divergences from research findings with an express commitment to bridging the linguistic divide that has kept African scholarship apart.
Source: myghanadaily
