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Title:Insights from the cocoa regions in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana: rethinking the migration-conflict nexus
Author:Mitchell, Matthew I.ISNI
Year:2011
Periodical:African Studies Review (ISSN 1555-2462)
Volume:54
Issue:2
Pages:123-144
Language:English
Geographic terms:Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire
Ghana
Subjects:migration
cocoa
national security
conflict
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/african_studies_review/v054/54.2.mitchell.pdf
Abstract:Although many scholars have noted the salience of mobility throughout the African continent, there has been little systematic investigation into the link between migration and conflict. Most scholarship has tended to see migration as primarily a by-product of conflict and not as a security issue in its own right. In analysing and contrasting the different migration-conflict trajectories in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, both marked by migration into natural resource sectors but with significantly different political outcomes: civil war in the former country versus relative peace in the latter, this article attempts to develop an empirically informed theoretical framework for understanding the nexus between migration and conflict in Africa. The comparative analysis of migration-conflict linkages in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana also provides insights into the key intervening variables linking migration with violent conflict, viz. the nature of State-society relations, the land tenure regime, State capacity and exogenous shocks, and experiences with autochthony discourses. However, although these variables help explain the different outcomes in the two cases, there are arguably also other factors at play linking migration and conflict. Indeed, much more thinking about this relationship needs to be done. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract, edited]
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