Volume 39 - Article 44 | Pages 1181–1226  

Contemporary female migration in Ghana: Analyses of the 2000 and 2010 Censuses

By Samantha R. Lattof, Philomena Nyarko, Ernestina Coast, Tiziana Leone

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