ABSTRACT
Migration is clearly a major issue across Africa. Indeed, migration both within countries and across borders can be regarded as having been an integral part of labour markets and livelihoods across much of the continent for at least the last century. In practice, however, the link between migration and poverty is often viewed rather more negatively. It is assumed across much of the continent that it is poverty that forces poor people to migrate, rather than migration being a potential route out of poverty. Internal migration in Ghana is primarily from north to south, with inmigrants representing more than 40% of the population in the Greater Accra, Volta and Western regions. Patterns of internal migration appear to have been affected by economic crisis and structural adjustment, with some arguing that a long trend of urbanization across the continent has been stopped or even reversed.
