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Leander Kandilige

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Verified email at ug.edu.gh Professor of Migration and Development, University of Ghana Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteCENTRE FOR MIGRATION STUDIES
DepartmentCENTRE FOR MIGRATION STUDIES SECRETARIAT
Migration and developmenttheories of migrationlabour migrationregional integrationreturn
Publications

65

Citations

503

H-index

11

i10-index

13

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
7.7
Most cited paper
112
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
14 Sep 2026, 09:06
Publications

65 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Please, thank you and sorry–brokering migration and constructing identities for domestic work in Ghana
M Awumbila, P Deshingkar, L Kandilige, JK Teye, M Setrana
2019 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45 (14), 2655-2671, 2019 Social Sciences 112
‘London the leveller’: Ghanaian work strategies and community solidarity
E Vasta, L Kandilige
2010 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 36 (4), 581-598, 2010 Social Sciences 66
The ECOWAS free movement protocol and diversity of experiences of different categories of migrants: A qualitative study
T Yeboah, L Kandilige, A Bisong, F Garba, J Kofi Teye
2021 International Migration 59 (3), 228-244, 2021 Social Sciences 43
‘They'd beat us with whatever is available to them’: Exploitation and abuse of Ghanaian domestic workers in the Middle East
L Kandilige, JK Teye, M Setrana, DM Badasu
2023 International Migration 61 (4), 240-256, 2023 Social Sciences 29
The Quagmire of return and reintegration: Challenges to multi‐stakeholder co‐ordination of involuntary returns
L Kandilige, G Adiku
2020 International Migration 58 (4), 37-53, 2020 Social Sciences 29
Brokerage in migrant domestic work in Ghana: complex social relations and mixed outcomes
M Awumbila, P Deshingkar, L Kandilige, JK Teye, M Setrana
2017 Brighton: University of Sussex, 2017 Social Sciences 19
Migration and development in Africa: Trends, challenges, and policy implications
RKO Kyei, DM Kadje, L Kandilige, TK Abutima, PB Obour, OM Osiki, ...
2017 Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2017 Social Sciences 18
National and international migration policy in Ghana
L Kandilige, J Teye, C Talleraas, A Gopsill
2023 EFFEXT Background paper, CMI, 2023 Social Sciences 17
Connection men, pushers and migrant trajectories: Examining the dynamics of the migration industry in Ghana and along routes into Europe and the Gulf States
M Awumbila, JK Teye, L Kandilige, E Nikoi, P Deshingkar
2019 Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium Working Paper 65, 2019 Social Sciences 13
Chinese migration to Ghana: Challenging the orthodoxy on characterizing migrants and reasons for migration
JK Teye, L Kandilige, M Setrana, J Yaro
2022 Ghana Journal of Geography 14 (2), 203-234, 2022 Social Sciences 11
Returns of failure: Involuntary return migration and social change in Ghana
L Kandilige, GA Adiku
2019 Transnational return and social change: Hierarchies, identities and ideas, 63-83, 2019 Social Sciences 11
Libya case study: An unending crisis–Responses of migrants, states and organisations to the 2011 Libya crisis
F Zampagni, H Boubakri, R Hoinathy, L Kandilige, MN Hamidou, S Sadek, ...
2017 Vienna International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD, 2017 Social Sciences 11
Migrants in countries in crisis: The Experiences of Ghanaian and Nigerien migrants during the Libyan Crisis of 2011
L Kandilige, MN Hamidou
2019 African Human Mobility Review 5 (2), 1583-1610, 2019 Social Sciences 10
Returns from the South: Effects of return migration of Ghanaian migrants from China on livelihoods and wealth inequalities in Ghana
L Kandilige, JA Yaro
2024 International Migration 62 (1), 6-22, 2024 Social Sciences 8
The Conundrum of Birth Tourism and American'Jackpot Babies': Attitudes of Ghanaian Urban Dwellers
AA Allotey, L Kandilige
2021 African Human Mobility Review 7 (3), 38-61, 2021 Social Sciences 8
Birth tourism to the United States of America and its perceived implications for Ghana
AA Allotey
2023 Ghana Journal of Geography 15 (1), 1-34, 2023 Social Sciences 7
Labour mobility and regional integration in East and Horn of Africa
LA Oucho, L Kandilige
2023 IOM, 2023 Social Sciences 7
The Role of Trust and Migrant Investments in Diaspora-Homeland Development Relations
L Kandilige
2017 African Human Mobility Review 3 (1), 671-701, 2017 Social Sciences 7
Transnationalism and the Ghanaian diaspora in the UK: Regional inequalities and the developmental effects of remittances at the sub-national level
L Kandilige
2011 Oxford University, UK, 2011 Social Sciences 7
West African migration regimes and the externalization of EU migration management policies
L Kandilige, T Yeboah
2024 Making routes: Mobility and the politics of migration in the Global South, 2024 Social Sciences 6
Co-creation of transnational livelihoods through ‘door-to-door’shipping operations along the Ghana-UK migration corridor
GA Adiku, L Kandilige
2023 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 49 (9), 2416-2433, 2023 Social Sciences 5
Gaps and Challenges in Ghana's Implementation of the Mechanisms for Cooperation and Referral of Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Victims
GA Ampah, L Kandilige
2023 African Human Mobility Review 9 (3), 10-32, 2023 Social Sciences 5
Multi-stakeholder approach for dealing with Trafficking in Persons: The case of Ghana
L Kandilige, GA Ampah
2023 Ghana Journal of Geography 15 (3), 92-126, 2023 Social Sciences 5
Citizenship, Belonging and Crisis-Induced Returns of Ghanaian Migrants from Côte d'Ivoire
L Kandilige, T Yeboah, TK Abutima
2022 African Human Mobility Review 8 (1), 34-58, 2022 Social Sciences 5
Collective remittance mobilisation strategies of Ghanaian hometown associations in the UK
L Kandilige
2017 Ghana Journal of Geography 9 (3), 23–49-23–49, 2017 Social Sciences 5