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Mary Boatemaa Setrana

PROFESSOR

Verified email at ug.edu.gh Associate Professor of Migration and Social Change- University of Ghana Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteCENTRE FOR MIGRATION STUDIES
DepartmentCENTRE FOR MIGRATION STUDIES SECRETARIAT
Migration StudiesGender StudiesCitizenship StudiesForced DisplacementSustainable Peacebuilding
Publications

84

Citations

761

H-index

15

i10-index

23

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
9.1
Most cited paper
112
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
14 Sep 2026, 11:02
Publications

84 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
Return migrants and the challenge of reintegration: The case of returnees to Kumasi, Ghana
MB Setrana, S Tonah
2014 A Journal of African Migration 7 (Jun), 113-142, 2014 Social Sciences 80
Gendered dynamics in West African migration
MB Setrana, N Kleist
2022 Migration in West Africa: IMISCOE regional reader, 57-76, 2022 Social Sciences 54
Do transnational links matter after return? Labour market participation among Ghanaian return migrants
MB Setrana, S Tonah
2016 The Journal of Development Studies 52 (4), 549-560, 2016 Social Sciences 45
Evolution and nature of diaspora engagement policies in Ghana
JK Teye, O Alhassan, M Boatemaa Setrana
2017 Africa and its global diaspora: The policy and politics of emigration, 143-173, 2017 Social Sciences 31
‘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
Choosing to stay: Alternate migration decisions of Ghanaian youth
M Setrana
2021 Social Inclusion 9 (1), 247-256, 2021 Social Sciences 23
MIGRATION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS FROM GHANA: TRENDS, DRIVERS, AND EMERGING ISSUES.
J Kofi Teye, M Boatemaa Setrana, A Agyeiwaa Acheampong
2015 Current Politics & Economics of Africa 8 (3), 459, 2015 Social Sciences 23
Promoting peace and managing farmer-herder conflict: the role of civil society organizations in Agogo, Ghana
MB Setrana
2022 African Studies Review 65 (2), 430-454, 2022 Social Sciences 22
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
Citizenship, indigeneity, and the experiences of 1.5-and second-generation Fulani herders in Ghana
MB Setrana
2021 Africa Spectrum 56 (1), 81-99, 2021 Social Sciences 18
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
Migration across West Africa: development-related aspects
P Quartey, MB Setrana, CA Tagoe
2020 Migration in West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean: Trends …, 2020 Social Sciences 17
17 Internal and international migration dynamics in Africa
MPK Okyerefo, MB Setrana
2018 Handbook of migration and globalisation, 281, 2018 Social Sciences 17
Human mobility in Ghana
EA Agyeman, MB Setrana
2014 Africans on the move: Human mobility in Ghana, Nigeria, Angola and South …, 2014 Social Sciences 16
Back home at last! Factors influencing return and reintegration of Ghanaian returnees
MB Setrana
2017 Journal of Identity and Migration Studies 11 (1), 27-195, 2017 Social Sciences 15
The politics of peacebuilding in Africa
TK Tieku, A Coffie, MB Setrana, A Taiwo
2021 Routledge, 2021 Social Sciences 14
The Janus-face of contemporary migration: Perspectives on West African return migration and transnationalism with a focus on Ghana and Senegal
J Mensah, JK Teye, MB Setrana
2022 Migration in West Africa 237, 2022 Social Sciences 12
Unpacked narratives on migration governance: missing voices of female migrants in migration policies in West Africa
MB Setrana
2025 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 51 (18), 4644-4662, 2025 Social Sciences 11
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
Migration, farmer-herder conflict and the challenges of peacebuilding in the Agogo traditional area, Ghana
MB Setrana, JRKO Kyei
2021 Ghana Journal of Geography 13 (2), 2021 Social Sciences 11
Beyond the binary debates in migration: Experiences of Fulani nomads, sedentary Fulani, and autochthone farmers in Agogo, Ghana
MB Setrana, JRKO Kyei, D Nyarko
2022 Migration Studies 10 (2), 152-171, 2022 Social Sciences 10
Where do you come from, where do you go? Assessing skills gaps and labour market outcomes for young adults with different immigration backgrounds
A Cathles, D Ou, S Sasso, M Setrana, T van Veen
2021 International Journal of Educational Development 86, 102466, 2021 Social Sciences 10
Forced displacement, access to services and livelihood opportunities from a gender and intersectional perspective
M Setrana
2024 Social Sciences 9
The dynamics of south–south migration in Africa
JA Yaro, MB Setrana
2023 The palgrave handbook of south–south migration and inequality, 183-199, 2023 Social Sciences 9