Senanu Kwasi Kutor
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 162349 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Senanu Kwasi Kutor |
| NOMBRES | Senanu Kwasi |
| APELLIDO | Kutor |
| FIRMA | KUTOR S K |
| AFILIACIONES | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2637-4823 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
What we know, do not know, and need to know about the impacts of climate hazard (flooding) on livelihood assets dynamics in two Ghanaian coastal communities
A Systematic Review of the Global Literature on Gated Communities
This study systematically reviews 336 peer-reviewed articles on gated communities (1997–2023) to examine thematic evolution and geographic diversification. Guided by a unified conceptual framework, it identifies six meta-themes and traces a transition from early defensive architecture to contemporary sustainable assemblages. The findings also reveal a significant “Southern turn” dominated by China and a conceptual shift where the gate has evolved…
A Blend of Instrumental and Feminist Ethics of Care Strategies in Courting the Diaspora Populations
Diaspora-homeland engagements, also known as diaspora policies or sending state strategies, have received significant attention in research and policy. This study applied framing theory and textual analysis to 110 Ghanaian online newspapers to examine how the media framed Ghana's 2019 Year of Return. The analysis revealed that the media predominantly framed the Year of Return from an instrumental perspective, buttressed by the frames of tourism d…
Ghanaian Men’s Internal and International Migration
“They ignored our ideas on the sea defence project”
Socio-politics shape coastal flood management in Ghana • Reveals marginalization of local knowledge in adaptation planning • Finds that hard-engineered flood measures disrupt livelihoods in coastal areas. • Propose institutional reforms to transform coastal adaptation planning
Planning and Managing Migration Within the Framework of the Migration–development Nexus
The relationship between migration and development, especially in Global South contexts, is debated in migration studies. Given the real or perceived gains and challenges of migration, countries are formulating and implementing migration policies (including regional agreements) to maximise or minimise youth migration, return migration, climate-induced migration and protect migration-associated human rights issues. However, there is currently no s…
Migration‐induced separation
The literature on women left behind due to husbands’ migration presents mixed findings. However, studies exploring these women's interpretations of family separation due to their husbands’ geographical dislocations are limited. To fill this gap, this study examines how Ghanaian women left behind due to their husbands’ migration interpret migration‐induced family separation. Filling this scholarly gap is important as it provides insights into thes…
Community perceptions on institutional gaps in flood disaster preparedness and management in Mepe community, Ghana
Migration, gender roles, and empowerment
Why wouldn't they return? Examining the return decisions through the integration-transnationalism matrix among Ghanaian immigrants from Canada
International and internal migration and the subjective wellbeing of wives left behind in Ghana
Husbands' labour migration has ramifications for significant family members, particularly wives left behind. However, limited studies have been conducted to examine the impacts of husbands' migration on women left behind married to international and internal migrants. Drawing on a purposive sampling survey of 298 Ghanaian women (international = 129 and internal = 169) in the Volta Region, we assessed their subjective wellbeing using three dimensi…
The Housing Experiences of Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) in Canada
Extra-Regional Return Migration to Africa
As global economies become increasingly interconnected, the movement of people across borders has intensified, generating significant debate on the implications for both sending and receiving countries. Amid this debate, studies continue to report the return of some migrants to out-sourcing countries. While extra-regional return migration (henceforth, return migration) to Africa has received scholarly attention, there is no periodic systematic li…
Sense of community (SOC) in gated urban neighborhoods
Support Networks of Immigrants in Canada
This study examines the role of support networks in the integration process of Ghanaian immigrants to Canada. Although social support networks have been widely argued to shape the immigrants’ pre- and postmigration experience, their presence and roles are neither self-evident nor constant. Common conceptualizations of social support exchange often perceive support as unidirectional, flowing only from network members to immigrants. This underlies …
Harnessing the tenets of health promotion and wise reasoning in managing the Covid-19 pandemic in Ghana and similar contexts
The emergence of COVID-19 in December 2019 produced new geographic spaces characterized by physical and social distancing with concomitant surprises. In Ghana, management of the first and second waves of the pandemic garnered mixed reactions from the populace. Against these perspectives, this commentary explored the critical role of health promotion and wise reasoning tenets in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, specifically through the…
Trapped or not trapped? An empirical investigation into the lived experiences of the urban poor in Harare’s selected informal settlements
The role of informal settlements in human development remains contested in urban studies literature. For instance, some existing studies view urban informal settlements as hotspots of social unrest, squalor and precarious residential environments (poverty traps); while others perceive them as places where the poor become resourceful, ingenious, and develop necessary skills to navigate urban life (pathways out of poverty). The absence of systemati…
The double return experience
What motivates Ghanaian migrants who return from Canada, with the intention to settle permanently in Ghana, to move back to Canada? This study answers this question by exploring the lived experiences of Ghanaian migrants involved in double return migration. Using semi-structured interviews with Ghanaian migrants residing in the Greater Toronto Area, the paper demonstrates the complexity of a double return (return to Ghana and second return to Can…
There's no place like [your] home
Somali hospitality is a choreographed ritual that caters care-fully to guests' well-being. • From door to departure, the guest is centered—their physical, financial, social well-being catered to. • The custom transforms both the home and host into material sites of protection. • It provides Somalis a break from everyday negotiations with anti-Blackness and Orientalism. This article explores Somali hospitality's ontological functions as a cultural…
Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept
Over the years, some scholars have not only written against the concept of immigrant integration but have called for its rejection and abandonment. Critics argue that the concept is normative, objectifies others, mirrors outmoded imaginary of society, orients towards methodological nationalism, and a narrow emphasis on immigrants in the forces defining integration progression. Nonetheless, the concept continues to receive academic and policy atte…
Influence of socio-demographic factors and housing characteristics on satisfaction with privacy in gated communities in Accra (Ghana)
Gated Communities (GCs) are rapidly popularizing and becoming a dominant form of housing in Global South Cities. Using binary logistic regression analysis, this article examines how socio-demographic and housing characteristics predict residents’ satisfaction with privacy in Devtraco and Manet (GCs) in Accra, Ghana. Ceteris paribus, residents of Devtraco had lower odds of being satisfied with privacy compared to those in Manet (OR = 0.23; p
Thinking geographically about how people become wiser
Our research seeks to answer whether immigrants see the act of relocating to a different country and the place-based intercultural encounters associated with this migration as being conducive to wisdom. The study is interested in qualitatively analysing the spatial constitution of wisdom and the perceptions of wisdom that immigrants possess. This situated approach looks at wisdom in relation to narrativity, subjectivity, and positionality, as opp…
Harnessing ‘communities of practice’ for local development and advancing the Sustainable Development Goals
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seek to address some of the most critical contemporary global challenges in a 17-goal agenda, including poverty, inequality, global environmental and climate crises. Central to these goals is Goal 17, ‘Partnership for the SDGs’ which forms the core framework for implementation of SDGs across scale. After the first five years of implementation, remarkable progress has been recorded globally; …
Assessing how rural-urban migration is incorporated in Ghana’s national urban policy
Urbanisation is increasingly recognised as one of the pressing global issues. As a result, managing contemporary and future urban processes to produce sustainable outcomes has become a preoccupation of policy analysts, academics, and urban planners. Urbanisation can either produce positive or negative outcomes depending on how authorities and stakeholders at all levels manage it. In African context, several national governments have formulated an…
Residential satisfaction in deprived urban neighbourhoods
They say these are places for criminals, but this is our home’
In developing countries, people living in informal settlements are subjected to different forms of coercive control such as threats of evictions, exclusion, blocked access to urban services and other types of structural violence. These coercive measures are legitimised through the discursive branding of informal settlements as ‘unplanned’, ‘disorderly’ and ‘dangerous’ neighbourhoods. This paper examines how people living in these denigrated neigh…
International migration, cross-cultural interaction, and the development of personal wisdom
Drawing on semi-structured in-depth interviews with Romanian immigrants in Ontario, Canada, conducted between 2014 and 2018, this article explores how the experiences acquired by the Romanian immigrants through migration and multicultural intercourse facilitate the development of personal wisdom. We show how our research participants perceived these geographical processes of migration and place-based multiethnic cohabitation to account for their …
Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept
Over the years, some scholars have not only written against the concept of immigrant integration but have called for its rejection and abandonment. Critics argue that the concept is normative, objectifies others, mirrors outmoded imaginary of society, orients towards methodological nationalism, and a narrow emphasis on immigrants in the forces defining integration progression. Nonetheless, the concept continues to receive academic and policy atte…
Residential satisfaction in deprived urban neighbourhoods
International and internal migration and the subjective wellbeing of wives left behind in Ghana
Husbands' labour migration has ramifications for significant family members, particularly wives left behind. However, limited studies have been conducted to examine the impacts of husbands' migration on women left behind married to international and internal migrants. Drawing on a purposive sampling survey of 298 Ghanaian women (international = 129 and internal = 169) in the Volta Region, we assessed their subjective wellbeing using three dimensi…
To leave or not to leave? An analysis of individual and neighbourhood characteristics shaping place attachment in Harare's selected informal settlements
Place attachment is one of the important characteristics of sustainable neighbourhoods. The dynamics of place attachment in deprived neighbourhoods remain under‐researched, especially in Global South contexts. This paper examines how individual socio‐demographic and neighbourhood characteristics influence place attachment in Harare's selected informal settlements, namely Hopley, Hatcliffe Extension, and Epworth Ward 7. These neighbourhoods were p…
Migration, gender roles, and empowerment
The Housing Experiences of Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) in Canada
Sense of community (SOC) in gated urban neighborhoods
Influence of socio-demographic factors and housing characteristics on satisfaction with privacy in gated communities in Accra (Ghana)
Gated Communities (GCs) are rapidly popularizing and becoming a dominant form of housing in Global South Cities. Using binary logistic regression analysis, this article examines how socio-demographic and housing characteristics predict residents’ satisfaction with privacy in Devtraco and Manet (GCs) in Accra, Ghana. Ceteris paribus, residents of Devtraco had lower odds of being satisfied with privacy compared to those in Manet (OR = 0.23; p
Extra-Regional Return Migration to Africa
As global economies become increasingly interconnected, the movement of people across borders has intensified, generating significant debate on the implications for both sending and receiving countries. Amid this debate, studies continue to report the return of some migrants to out-sourcing countries. While extra-regional return migration (henceforth, return migration) to Africa has received scholarly attention, there is no periodic systematic li…
Exploring Ghanaian male immigrants' transnational dating practices within the integration‐transnationalism matrix
The migration literature focusing on understanding interactions between immigrants' integration and transnationalism is replete with mixed findings. However, contemporary consensus among migration scholars suggests that immigrants' integration and transnational connections can occur simultaneously. Focusing on transnational dating—which is understudied—this exploratory study draws on an online qualitative survey with five Ghanaian male immigrants…
International migration, cross-cultural interaction, and the development of personal wisdom
Drawing on semi-structured in-depth interviews with Romanian immigrants in Ontario, Canada, conducted between 2014 and 2018, this article explores how the experiences acquired by the Romanian immigrants through migration and multicultural intercourse facilitate the development of personal wisdom. We show how our research participants perceived these geographical processes of migration and place-based multiethnic cohabitation to account for their …
Theorizing “Wicked Concept” and Reconceptualizing Wisdom as Wicked
The emergent conceptual framework of wicked problems has garnered much attention in academic discourse, including geography. By refining and drawing insights from tenets of the wicked problem concept, this article posits a “wicked concept” usefully defined through five propositions: Wicked concepts are difficult to define and have no universal meaning; there is an unending quest for a universal definition of wicked concepts; definitions and conce…
They say these are places for criminals, but this is our home’
In developing countries, people living in informal settlements are subjected to different forms of coercive control such as threats of evictions, exclusion, blocked access to urban services and other types of structural violence. These coercive measures are legitimised through the discursive branding of informal settlements as ‘unplanned’, ‘disorderly’ and ‘dangerous’ neighbourhoods. This paper examines how people living in these denigrated neigh…
Thinking geographically about how people become wiser
Our research seeks to answer whether immigrants see the act of relocating to a different country and the place-based intercultural encounters associated with this migration as being conducive to wisdom. The study is interested in qualitatively analysing the spatial constitution of wisdom and the perceptions of wisdom that immigrants possess. This situated approach looks at wisdom in relation to narrativity, subjectivity, and positionality, as opp…
Harnessing ‘communities of practice’ for local development and advancing the Sustainable Development Goals
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seek to address some of the most critical contemporary global challenges in a 17-goal agenda, including poverty, inequality, global environmental and climate crises. Central to these goals is Goal 17, ‘Partnership for the SDGs’ which forms the core framework for implementation of SDGs across scale. After the first five years of implementation, remarkable progress has been recorded globally; …
Assessing how rural-urban migration is incorporated in Ghana’s national urban policy
Urbanisation is increasingly recognised as one of the pressing global issues. As a result, managing contemporary and future urban processes to produce sustainable outcomes has become a preoccupation of policy analysts, academics, and urban planners. Urbanisation can either produce positive or negative outcomes depending on how authorities and stakeholders at all levels manage it. In African context, several national governments have formulated an…
Residential satisfaction in deprived urban neighbourhoods
To leave or not to leave? An analysis of individual and neighbourhood characteristics shaping place attachment in Harare's selected informal settlements
Place attachment is one of the important characteristics of sustainable neighbourhoods. The dynamics of place attachment in deprived neighbourhoods remain under‐researched, especially in Global South contexts. This paper examines how individual socio‐demographic and neighbourhood characteristics influence place attachment in Harare's selected informal settlements, namely Hopley, Hatcliffe Extension, and Epworth Ward 7. These neighbourhoods were p…
Exploring Ghanaian male immigrants' transnational dating practices within the integration‐transnationalism matrix
The migration literature focusing on understanding interactions between immigrants' integration and transnationalism is replete with mixed findings. However, contemporary consensus among migration scholars suggests that immigrants' integration and transnational connections can occur simultaneously. Focusing on transnational dating—which is understudied—this exploratory study draws on an online qualitative survey with five Ghanaian male immigrants…
Harnessing the tenets of health promotion and wise reasoning in managing the Covid-19 pandemic in Ghana and similar contexts
The emergence of COVID-19 in December 2019 produced new geographic spaces characterized by physical and social distancing with concomitant surprises. In Ghana, management of the first and second waves of the pandemic garnered mixed reactions from the populace. Against these perspectives, this commentary explored the critical role of health promotion and wise reasoning tenets in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, specifically through the…
Trapped or not trapped? An empirical investigation into the lived experiences of the urban poor in Harare’s selected informal settlements
The role of informal settlements in human development remains contested in urban studies literature. For instance, some existing studies view urban informal settlements as hotspots of social unrest, squalor and precarious residential environments (poverty traps); while others perceive them as places where the poor become resourceful, ingenious, and develop necessary skills to navigate urban life (pathways out of poverty). The absence of systemati…
The double return experience
What motivates Ghanaian migrants who return from Canada, with the intention to settle permanently in Ghana, to move back to Canada? This study answers this question by exploring the lived experiences of Ghanaian migrants involved in double return migration. Using semi-structured interviews with Ghanaian migrants residing in the Greater Toronto Area, the paper demonstrates the complexity of a double return (return to Ghana and second return to Can…
There's no place like [your] home
Somali hospitality is a choreographed ritual that caters care-fully to guests' well-being. • From door to departure, the guest is centered—their physical, financial, social well-being catered to. • The custom transforms both the home and host into material sites of protection. • It provides Somalis a break from everyday negotiations with anti-Blackness and Orientalism. This article explores Somali hospitality's ontological functions as a cultural…
Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept
Over the years, some scholars have not only written against the concept of immigrant integration but have called for its rejection and abandonment. Critics argue that the concept is normative, objectifies others, mirrors outmoded imaginary of society, orients towards methodological nationalism, and a narrow emphasis on immigrants in the forces defining integration progression. Nonetheless, the concept continues to receive academic and policy atte…
Influence of socio-demographic factors and housing characteristics on satisfaction with privacy in gated communities in Accra (Ghana)
Gated Communities (GCs) are rapidly popularizing and becoming a dominant form of housing in Global South Cities. Using binary logistic regression analysis, this article examines how socio-demographic and housing characteristics predict residents’ satisfaction with privacy in Devtraco and Manet (GCs) in Accra, Ghana. Ceteris paribus, residents of Devtraco had lower odds of being satisfied with privacy compared to those in Manet (OR = 0.23; p
International and internal migration and the subjective wellbeing of wives left behind in Ghana
Husbands' labour migration has ramifications for significant family members, particularly wives left behind. However, limited studies have been conducted to examine the impacts of husbands' migration on women left behind married to international and internal migrants. Drawing on a purposive sampling survey of 298 Ghanaian women (international = 129 and internal = 169) in the Volta Region, we assessed their subjective wellbeing using three dimensi…
The Housing Experiences of Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) in Canada
Extra-Regional Return Migration to Africa
As global economies become increasingly interconnected, the movement of people across borders has intensified, generating significant debate on the implications for both sending and receiving countries. Amid this debate, studies continue to report the return of some migrants to out-sourcing countries. While extra-regional return migration (henceforth, return migration) to Africa has received scholarly attention, there is no periodic systematic li…
Sense of community (SOC) in gated urban neighborhoods
Support Networks of Immigrants in Canada
This study examines the role of support networks in the integration process of Ghanaian immigrants to Canada. Although social support networks have been widely argued to shape the immigrants’ pre- and postmigration experience, their presence and roles are neither self-evident nor constant. Common conceptualizations of social support exchange often perceive support as unidirectional, flowing only from network members to immigrants. This underlies …
“They ignored our ideas on the sea defence project”
Socio-politics shape coastal flood management in Ghana • Reveals marginalization of local knowledge in adaptation planning • Finds that hard-engineered flood measures disrupt livelihoods in coastal areas. • Propose institutional reforms to transform coastal adaptation planning
Planning and Managing Migration Within the Framework of the Migration–development Nexus
The relationship between migration and development, especially in Global South contexts, is debated in migration studies. Given the real or perceived gains and challenges of migration, countries are formulating and implementing migration policies (including regional agreements) to maximise or minimise youth migration, return migration, climate-induced migration and protect migration-associated human rights issues. However, there is currently no s…
Migration‐induced separation
The literature on women left behind due to husbands’ migration presents mixed findings. However, studies exploring these women's interpretations of family separation due to their husbands’ geographical dislocations are limited. To fill this gap, this study examines how Ghanaian women left behind due to their husbands’ migration interpret migration‐induced family separation. Filling this scholarly gap is important as it provides insights into thes…
Community perceptions on institutional gaps in flood disaster preparedness and management in Mepe community, Ghana
Migration, gender roles, and empowerment
Sociology (23 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (16 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Geography (14 obras) · Economics (13 obras) · Psychology (12 obras) · Economic growth (10 obras) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (8 obras) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (7 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras)