Iman Hashim, University of Sussex
Iman Hashim is a Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, working on children's independent migration from rural north-eastern Ghana to rural and urban central Ghana. Her current work builds on long-term ethnographic research undertaken in a farming community in north-eastern Ghana, where she focussed on the work of children for their own households, as well as on community attitudes toward education and children's experiences of education. Prior to this she worked for the International Labour Office as a research officer on child labour.
Children and Migration: Background Paper for DFID Migration Team
Author: A. Whitehead; I. HashimPublication date: 01/03/2005
Globally, high rates of adult migration in various forms means that the numbers of children affected...
› See full documentResearch Report on Children's Independent Migration from Northeastern to Central Ghana
Author: I. M. HashimPublication date: June 2005
This report discusses findings of a research carried out in Ghana with independent child migrants and...
› See full documentExploring the Linkages between Children's Independent Migration and Education: Evidence from Ghana.
Author: I.M. HashimPublication date: 01/08/2005
Migrating for education is an under-researched area in the literature on children's independent...
› See full documentThe Positives and Negatives of Children's Independent Migration: Assessing the Evidence and the Debates.
Author: I.M. HashimPublication date: 01/09/2006
For the most part the independent migration of children tends to be presented in the policy...
› See full documentChild Migration, Child Agency and Inter-generational Relations in Africa and South Asia
Publication date: 09/12/2007
This paper arises out of the findings from a set of research projects carried out under the aegis of the...
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