Leander Kandilige

Junior Fellow and co-convenor IFG 1

February - March 2019

Dr. Leander Kandilige is a Lecturer of Migration Studies at the Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana, Visiting Lecturer at the University of Northampton and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. He holds a D.Phil. (PhD.) in Migration Studies from the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. In addition, he holds an M.St. in Forced Migration (University of Oxford), M.A. in International Affairs (University of Ghana), a Postgraduate Certificate in Managing Voluntary Organisations (University of Southampton) and a B.A. (First Class Honours) in Political Science and Philosophy (University of Ghana). His research interests are in migration and development, migration theory, labour migrations in Africa, diaspora and development, migration policies, and return migration.

While migration research, in the past decades, has increasingly highlighted the transnational dimension of migration as a bottom-up process, policy responses have so far mostly been framed as an issue ... Read more
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Institute:
University of Ghana

Year:
2018/2019

Interdisciplinary Fellow Group:
IFG 1