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Dr. Senanu Kutor is an experienced academic who has published extensively and has experience in teaching undergraduate courses. His primary research interests is migration with a focus on subjective wellbeing, gender, women's empowerment, climate change and immobility. Additional research and teaching interests include urban geography, transnationalism, and public policy.
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Discussions on the climate change–human mobility nexus have received intense academic and policy attention. Although there is evidence that some people decide to stay put amidst climate hazards, research on climate change and immobility remains limited, particularly in relation to Africa. To address this scholarly gap, this study conducted 36 quali...
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-indu...
Although studies show that housing is integral to integrating immigrants into mainstream Canada, no systematic literature review has been conducted to examine established findings in the existing literature on the housing experiences of temporary foreign workers. The only existing scoping review exclusively focused on the housing experiences of sea...
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...
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 (hencefor...
Academics and policymakers have been paying close attention to the impact of climate change on migration in recent years. This phenomenon piqued interest because the factors driving environmentally induced migration are complex and manifold. Noticeably, there has been considerable scholarship on climate change and migration in Africa. However, ther...
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 defi...
This article explores Somali hospitality's ontological functions as a cultural custom that functions to enhance the well-being of its (Somali) visitor(s). Interviews with first-generation Somali Canadians (n = 27) depicted Somali hospitality as a choreographed ritual which caters care-fully and sequentially to guests’ well-being. From door to depar...
Africa’s socio-economic development in relation to other parts of the world is a topical issue that has received scholarly attention over several decades. Notwithstanding the theoretical lens one deploys to interrogate this old-age puzzle, Bhattacharyya (2009) argues that it is an established fact that Africa is lagging behind the rest of the world...
This paper examines residential satisfaction and the factors that influence it within the context of Harare’s selected informal settlements (Hopley, Hatcliffe extension and Epworth ward 7). The study presents interesting findings from regression analysis; some of which challenge the dominant narratives that characterize deprived neighbourhoods as h...
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 stake...
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 promoti...
Over the past decade, a handful of human geographers have started writing on the topic of ‘wisdom’—a research field that has long been dominated by philosophers and psychologists. Existing human geography writings on wisdom encompass issues such as international migration, cross-cultural interactions, and boundary conditions in personal wisdom deve...
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...
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 understu...
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 De...
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 s...
The emergence and the rapid spread of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) have resulted in a global public health crisis. The debilitating social and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable societies has given rise to questionings, blames, and accusations about how the pandemic has been managed at the national level. This study uses the...
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 infor...
Drawing on semi-structured in-depth interviews with Romanian immigrants in Ontario, Canada, conducted between 2014 and 2018, this paper 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...
Purpose: This paper examines how one group of frontline health workers (nurses) amid COVID-19 pandemic perceive the government of Ghana’s decision to ease the lockdown restrictions when cases were increasing. This paper contributes to the literature on Igor Grossman’s concept of wise reasoning and its applicability to COVID-19 management decision-m...
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 paper posits a ‘wicked concept’ usefully defined through five propositions: wicked concepts are difficult to define and have no universal meanin...
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 s...
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’, ‘disorde...
Migration and cross-cultural interaction are being increasingly studied and researched by social scientists from various perspectives. However, one aspect that is under-studied is the relationship between migration, cross-cultural interaction and wisdom development from a geographical perspective. Drawing on the qualitative study of Romanian immigr...
This working paper discusses the second objective of my major research paper "Wisdom and cross-cultural interaction: a geographical perspective" (MA in Geography, Brock University). The second objective of this study is to identify the behaviours and attitudes that the Romanian immigrants in Toronto and Ontario perceived as a sign of wise qualities...
This presentation describes the waste generation and management situation in Techiman, Brong Ahafo, Ghana.
This working paper focuses on the first of the four objectives of my major research paper "Wisdom and cross-cultural interaction: a geographical perspective" (MA in Geography, Brock University, Insight Grant # 435-2013-0161). The participants were asked to comment on how and why they consider their migration from Romanian to Canada, as well as thei...
This working paper discusses some of the recent literature relevant to my graduate research on "Wisdom and cross-cultural interaction: a geographical perspective" (2017-2019), undertaken within the framework of the SSHRC Insight Grant 435-2013-0161 "Is cross-cultural interaction conducive to wisdom? A study of Romanian immigrants in Toronto".
