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Senyo Dotsey
Gran Sasso Science Institute, Urban Studies & Regional Science, Viale Francesco Crispi, 7, 67100 L'Aquila, AQ, Italy

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Journal article
Published: 21 January 2021 in Cities
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While scholarly interest in forced migration has grown in recent years, the analytic focus has primarily been a spatial one. However, there is a growing recognition of the need to incorporate the temporal dimension into analyses of forced migration, in particular concerning the governance of refugee processing, reception and settlement. This recognition is based on a desire to better understand how states use time and timing to create borders, to define state membership, and to limit access to resources. This research addresses this gap in the literature, focusing on how temporality within the Italian national refugee reception programs shapes housing outcomes for refugees (people with political asylum, subsidiary and humanitarian protection status) in Bergamo (Italy). The findings show that after exiting accommodation centers refugees in Bergamo experienced multiple forms of housing instability, including homelessness, sleeping rough, doubling up, and using temporary structures. We argue here that the temporary and transitional nature of the housing and employment programs provided through the reception system are a significant explanatory factor.

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Senyo Dotsey; Audrey Lumley-Sapanski. Temporality, refugees, and housing: The effects of temporary assistance on refugee housing outcomes in Italy. Cities 2021, 111, 103100 .

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Senyo Dotsey, Audrey Lumley-Sapanski. Temporality, refugees, and housing: The effects of temporary assistance on refugee housing outcomes in Italy. Cities. 2021; 111 ():103100.

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Senyo Dotsey; Audrey Lumley-Sapanski. 2021. "Temporality, refugees, and housing: The effects of temporary assistance on refugee housing outcomes in Italy." Cities 111, no. : 103100.

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Published: 25 October 2019 in Sustainability
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While the engagement of Chinese migrants in small-scale mining in Ghana has gained traction in scholarship, the extant literature pays little attention to how the relationship between the so-called formal institutions (e.g., the Minerals Commission and Ministry of Land and Natural Resources) and informal institutions (e.g., the chieftaincy and customary land institutions) enables illegalities in the mining industry. This paper addresses this gap in the literature, focusing on the relationship between formal state and informal customary land institutions in the small-scale mining sector. Using an institutional analytical framework, we argue that the increasing involvement of the Chinese in small-scale mining in Ghana is an expression of a bigger and deep-seated problem characterized largely by uncoordinated interactions between key state and customary institutions. This, we suggest, creates parallel operations of formal and informal systems that promote different levels of agency and maneuvering among actors―breeding uncertainty, bureaucratic logjams, and illegalities in the mining industry. Based on our findings, we recommend that a more efficient coordination between the relevant state and traditional land governing institutions could curb the proliferation of illegal mining activities, and in particular, those involving Chinese migrants. As part of the conclusion, we suggest that future empirical research be conducted to explore the interactions between formal and informal institutions and how they affect mining activities.

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James Boafo; Sebastian Paalo; Senyo Dotsey. Illicit Chinese Small-Scale Mining in Ghana: Beyond Institutional Weakness? Sustainability 2019, 11, 5943 .

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James Boafo, Sebastian Paalo, Senyo Dotsey. Illicit Chinese Small-Scale Mining in Ghana: Beyond Institutional Weakness? Sustainability. 2019; 11 (21):5943.

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James Boafo; Sebastian Paalo; Senyo Dotsey. 2019. "Illicit Chinese Small-Scale Mining in Ghana: Beyond Institutional Weakness?" Sustainability 11, no. 21: 5943.

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Published: 30 June 2017 in Migration and Development
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International migration has become a kind of livelihood strategy for migrants (poor), and thus plays substantial roles in their livelihood improvements. Focusing on such perspectives, this study seeks to illuminate how international migration shapes livelihoods of Ghanaian migrants in the province of Como, Italy, during the recent economic crisis. Here, this paper considers livelihood improvements as the increase in the quality of life after migration as compared to migrants’ socio-economic features before migration, through lenses like employment, housing, business activity and necessary residency documents. Central to this analysis is to examine various registers that immigrants draw on to access and improve their livelihoods as they come into contact with their legal standing in the receiving country during the current economic crisis (hard times). Drawing heavily on qualitative inquiry of in-depth interviews and observation, this paper argues that immigrants though of legal standing have to draw on several strategies like personal and informal social networks and other sources like the migrants’ church(es) to access and improve their livelihoods. These findings enrich existing literature on international migration and livelihood dynamics in host countries in times of crises.

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Senyo Dotsey. International migration and livelihood dynamics during the recent economic crisis: a study of Ghanaian migrants in the Como province, Italy. Migration and Development 2017, 7, 104 -123.

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Senyo Dotsey. International migration and livelihood dynamics during the recent economic crisis: a study of Ghanaian migrants in the Como province, Italy. Migration and Development. 2017; 7 (1):104-123.

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Senyo Dotsey. 2017. "International migration and livelihood dynamics during the recent economic crisis: a study of Ghanaian migrants in the Como province, Italy." Migration and Development 7, no. 1: 104-123.