Mary Boatemaa Setrana

Mary Boatemaa Setrana is a lecturer at the Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana. She studied Migration and Sociology in Radboud University, the Netherlands, and the University of Ghana. She was a 2017 APN Individual Research Grant recipient and a post-doctoral fellow at University of South Florida (USF), USA, under the University of Ghana- Carnegie Corporation of New York sponsored project, Building a New Generation of Academics in Africa (BANGA-Africa). She has been awarded a courtesy appointment to the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at University of South Florida, USA and a fellow at the African Studies Centre, The Netherlands. Her current research focus is on return migration and reintegration, migration management and policies, diaspora and transnational migration, gender, social change and development, politics of belonging, citizenship and identity. Dr. Setrana has undertaken various projects that have been sponsored by DFID, IOM, ILO/OECD, Worldwide University Network (WUN) and Social Science Research Council among others.