Geraldine Asiwome Ampah

I specialise in sociology of development and migration. I currently teach principles of social organisation, diversity of peoples and cultures, and culture and development at the University of Ghana

Selected Publications

Ampah Geraldine Asiwome (2022). Matched sampling methodology reconsidered: The role of trust in studying remittance transfers between Ghanaian immigrants in the UK and their relatives in Ghana. African Affairs, 121(482) pp. 131-150.

Kandilige Leander and Ampah Geraldine Asiwome. (2022). Gaps in protection for West African migrants in times of crisis: The role of a multi-stakeholder platform within a partnership in preparedness model? In Joseph Teye (Ed.) Migration in West Africa: IMISCOE Regional Reader. Gewerbestrasse Cham: Spirnger.

Bjola Cornelius, Manor, Ilan, and Adiku, Geraldine Asiwome. (2022). Diaspora Diplomacy in the Digital Age. In L. Kennedy (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Diplomacy. Oxford: Routledge.

Kandilige, Leander and Ampah, Geraldine Asiwome (2022). ‘Door‐to‐door’: An emerging transnational business model along the Global North‐Global South migration corridor. Population, Space Place. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2597

Geraldine Asiwome Adiku & Leander Kandilige (2021) Co-creation of transnational livelihoods through ‘door-to- door’ shipping operations along the Ghana-UK migration corridor, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1901674

Kandilige, Leander and Adiku, Geraldine Asiwome. (2019). The Quagmire of Return and Reintegration: Challenges to Multi-Stakeholder Co-ordination of Involuntary Returns. International Migration. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12644

Kandilige Leander and Adiku, Geraldine Asiwome. (2019). ‘Returns of failure: Involuntary return migration and social change in Ghana’. In Paolo Boccagni, Remus Anghel, and Margit Fauser (Eds) Transnational return and social change: Social hierarchies, ideas, and social identities. (pp. 63-81). Anthem: London.

Kandilige Leander, Adiku, Geraldine Asiwome, Setrana Mary, Teye Joseph and Peterson Maame. (2019). The role of door to door shipping operators in Ghanaian international migration. Research Report for the University of Ghana.

Adiku, Geraldine Asiwome. (2017). ‘Negotiating transnational intimacy: A study of Ghanaian couples.’ Ghana Social Science Journal 14(1) pp. 161-192.

Adiku, Geraldine Asiwome and Alhassan Sulemana Anamzoya. (2016). Patriarchal norms in reverse remittance behaviour among Ghanaian transnational couples. Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana Reader.