Fluid Mobilities? Experiencing and Responding to Othering in a Borderless West Africa

Darkwah, Akosua K.

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“…Ironically the breach of the Protocol in the form of shop closures has the potential of undoing the integration that has occurred before the Protocol and those that were occasioned by it. A study by Darkwah has demonstrated increases in anti-immigrant sentiments in Ghana (Darkwah, 2020).…”

Section: Challenges Associated With Implementation Of the Free Moveme...mentioning

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Free Movement and Regional Integration in the ECOWAS Sub-Region

Garba

Yeboah

2022

IMISCOE Research Series

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This chapter situates attempts at promoting free movement of persons and regional integration in West Africa in a historical perspective. Employing a combination of historical policy research, critical literature review, and an analysis of secondary data, the chapter provides a chronology of the development of the Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) Protocol on Free Movement. This is done within the context of how the implementation of the Protocol facilitate human mobility and regional integration. The chapter pays attention to how the provision of the Protocol enables citizens of the West African region to take advantage of the opportunities in member states, and further explores some of the major challenges in the implementation of the Protocol. The chapter shows that the protocol on free movement allows ECOWAS citizens to continue to travel without visas within the region. Free movement of persons in the region has yielded great economic benefits in terms of boosting intra-regional trade, supporting the livelihoods of Community citizens and increasing remittance flows within the region. Nevertheless, there are still challenges associated with extortion and harassment of migrants at border crossings, and a lack of coherence between the member state national laws and the ECOWAS Protocols has meant that protocol is yet to be fully realised. The chapter also presents analysis of the prospects of recent attempts at strengthening the protocol such as the proposal to lift the provision/restriction that allows/limits member states’ citizens to enter and stay for maximum of 90 days and the proposal for the establishment of a common social security across the region.

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Free Movement and Regional Integration in the ECOWAS Sub-Region

Garba

Yeboah

2022

IMISCOE Research Series

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Migrant Political Mobilisation and Solidarity Building in the Global South

Awumbila,

Garba,

Darkwah

et al. 2023

The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality

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This chapter examines how migrants from the Global South who move within the region organise themselves, the forms of solidarity that they extend to each other, and how these relate to broader working-class formations. While xenophobia and othering are regular features of migrant-local interactions in the migration literature, the extent to which its opposite, solidarity, occurs as a result of the workplace and community activism of migrants has received scant attention. This chapter therefore focuses on how migrants within the Global South organise at the meso-level to defend and access their rights, and the solidarity that they build among themselves as migrants and with social movements, working-class organisations, and other civil society actors. It argues that meso-level organising and the solidarity networks that are formed, provide migrants in the Global South with the space to build solidarity in their own ways and to fight their exploitation and oppression. Using the example of trade unions, the authors urge the need for political mobilisation actions to move away from conceptualisations of migrants as victims but rather as actors, capable of various initiatives and with whom they can build solidarity movements.

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Identity construction amongst individuals with binational heritage in Africa

Darkwah

Ampah

2023

Social Identities

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Fluid Mobilities? Experiencing and Responding to Othering in a Borderless West Africa

Cited by 3 publications

References 26 publications

Free Movement and Regional Integration in the ECOWAS Sub-Region

Free Movement and Regional Integration in the ECOWAS Sub-Region

Migrant Political Mobilisation and Solidarity Building in the Global South

Identity construction amongst individuals with binational heritage in Africa

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