Transnational Embeddedness of Nigerian Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Ghana, West Africa

Bosiakoh, Thomas Antwi

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“…This paper draws on qualitative fieldwork in a broader multi-site study in Ghana conducted in Accra, Kumasi and Ashaiman as the main research settings (Antwi Bosiakoh, 2017b). Accra is the capital city of Ghana, Kumasi, the second largest city and Ashaiman, a sprawling sub-urban settlement.…”

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“…Similar to Oluchi, Ijeoma’s Nigerian restaurant business provides Nigerian cuisines for her customers who are predominantly of Nigerian ethnics in Suame, Kumasi. For both Oluchi and Ijeoma, the dominance of Nigerians in Ghanaian immigration (Twum-Baah, 2005; Essuman-Johnson, 2006; Antwi Bosiakoh, 2009, 2011, 2017a, 2017b) has opened up opportunities related to specific ethnic needs, in other words, the ethnically related needs of the immigrants, and this has offered them viable platform for unleashing their entrepreneurial drives. They have each seized the prospect in this by establishing their individual businesses.…”

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Nigerian immigrant women’s entrepreneurial embeddedness in Ghana, West Africa

Bosiakoh

Tetteh

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the role of female immigrant entrepreneurs generally and more specifically Nigerian women entrepreneurs in Ghana, West Africa. Design/methodology/approach This is a qualitative research that draws on a broad-based research on Nigerian men and women immigrants’ entrepreneurship in Ghana. Face-to-face interviews with six women in the study are analysed here to provide insights into their motivations for and embeddedness of their entrepreneurship activities in Ghana. Findings The women’s entrepreneurship activities lend themselves to the mixed embeddedness argument in two ways: first is their ethnic embeddedness, and second their embeddedness in informality and policy framework. Also, all the women work in very trying circumstances and thus display what can be described as a “daring entrepreneurship” drive. Practical implications This paper is positioned at the intersection of ethnic embeddedness, informality and daring entrepreneurial drive by migrant women. Originality/value The paper provides an unprecedented and a refreshing account on the entrepreneurship and operational pathways of women in the margin of the global economy.

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Nigerian immigrant women’s entrepreneurial embeddedness in Ghana, West Africa

Bosiakoh

Tetteh

2019

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“…The network and the middleman theories emphasize that individuals tend to rely on their social capital networks (co-ethnicity, friendship and family) and other ethnic resources (language, norms and culture). This favors both the emergence of ethnic businesses in the host countries (Purbasari et al , 2020) and/or the establishment of businesses between their home and host societies (Portes et al , 2002; Bosiakoh, 2019). Hence, the more diverse societies are characterized by a wider social capital network of ethnic and minority groups, including refugees, which is ultimately associated with higher entrepreneurship rates (Smallbone et al , 2010).…”

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Do refugee inflows contribute to the host countries’ entrepreneurial rates? A dynamic panel data analysis, 2000–2019

Noorbakhsh

Teixeira

2023

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Purpose This study aims to estimate the impact of refugee inflows on host countries’ entrepreneurial rates. The refugee crisis led to an increased scientific and public policy interest in the impact of refugee inflows on host countries. One important perspective of such an impact, which is still underexplored, is the impact of refugee inflows on host countries entrepreneurial rates. Given the high number of refugees that flow to some countries, it would be valuable to assess the extent to which such countries are likely to reap the benefits from increasing refugee inflows in terms of (native and non-native) entrepreneurial talent enhancement. Design/methodology/approach Resorting to dynamic (two-step system generalized method of moments) panel data estimations, based on 186 countries over the period between 2000 and 2019, this study estimates the impact of refugee inflows on host countries’ entrepreneurial rates, measured by the total early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA) rate and the self-employment rate. Findings In general, higher refugee inflows are associated with lower host countries’ TEA rates. However, refugee inflows significantly foster self-employment rates of “medium-high” and “high” income host countries and host countries located in Africa. These results suggest that refugee inflows tend to enhance “necessity” related new ventures and/ or new ventures (from native and non-native population) operating in low value-added, low profit sectors. Originality/value This study constitutes a novel empirical contribution by providing a macroeconomic, quantitative assessment of the impact of refugee from distinct nationalities on a diverse set of host countries' entrepreneurship rates in the past two decades resorting to dynamic panel data models, which enable to address the heterogeneity of the countries and deal with the endogeneity of the variables of the model.

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“…Nonetheless, it suffices to note that the Nigerian immigrants in this study are an important part of the growing Nigerian presence in Ghana (Antwi Bosiakoh, 2017a,b;Akinyoade, 2015) and a key part of the estimated 5.2 million Nigerians living in other countries around the world (Orozco and Mills, 2007). According to some sources (see for example Olatuyi et al, 2013) as many as 5% of all Nigerians in the diaspora live in Ghana, making Ghana the third top destination for Nigerian migrants in the global south following Sudan and Cameroon, and the fifth destination in the world including the US and UK (Antwi Bosiakoh, 2017b;Olatuyi et al, 2013). The migration of these Nigerians to Ghana is predicated on the sub-regional economic governance structure; that is, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), with protocols and regulations seeking to engineer free movement of people and goods.…”

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Nigerian Immigrants as ‘Liminars’ in Ghana, West Africa: Narratives on Mobility, Immobility and Borderlands

Bosiakoh

2019

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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The mobility/immobility research frontier in migration scholarship has gained ascendancy since the beginning of this century with some studies highlighting the need for broader global trends in cross-border mobility/immobility research. This article on Nigerian immigrants as ‘liminars’in Ghana, West Africa, is an attempt to join the global cross-border mobility/immobility discourse on mobile people. It is anchored in the qualitative research tradition with the empirical data generated through in-depth interviews, observations and market conversations with 41 Nigerian immigrant entrepreneurs in Accra (the capital of Ghana), Kumasi (the second largest city after Accra) and Ashaiman (a sprawling sub-urban settlement). In a three-theme analysis approach, the paper shows three intersections in mobilities, immobilities and borderland accounts, namely mobility/borderland, trapped/living in a borderland space, and immobility in temporal-spatial borderland, and places the immigrants into a liminar category. This article is a contribution to understanding the mobility/immobility research frontier from the perspective of the global south and its impact on global southern ‘citizens’.

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Transnational Embeddedness of Nigerian Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Ghana, West Africa

Cited by 6 publications

References 32 publications

Nigerian immigrant women’s entrepreneurial embeddedness in Ghana, West Africa

Nigerian immigrant women’s entrepreneurial embeddedness in Ghana, West Africa

Do refugee inflows contribute to the host countries’ entrepreneurial rates? A dynamic panel data analysis, 2000–2019

Nigerian Immigrants as ‘Liminars’ in Ghana, West Africa: Narratives on Mobility, Immobility and Borderlands

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