Professor Joseph Kofi Teye

Contact info jkteye@ug.edu.gh

About

I am a Human Geographer with a research focus on migration and development; Migration policy development; Migration, poverty, and inequalities; Environmental Change and Migration; Natural Resource Governance; and Agricultural Commercialization and Policy. I teach and supervise graduate and undergraduate students. Some courses I teach are: 

  • GEOG 451: Regional Development
  • GEOG 602: Explanation in Geography
  • GEOG 703: Advanced Qualitative Research Methods
  • GEOG 702: Advanced Quantitative Research Methods
  • MIST 703: Advanced Quantitative Research Methods. 
  • MIST 706: Migration and Development

Education

  • 2008: PhD, Human Geography, University of Leeds
  • 2004: Mphil, Social Change, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • 2001: BA, Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana

 

Research Interest

  • Migration and development 
  • Migration policy development 
  • Migration, poverty, and inequalities
  • Environmental Change and Migration
  • Natural Resource Governance 

  • Agricultural Commercialisation and Policy 

    Ongoing Research

  • 2021-2025: Urban Sanctuary, Migrant Solidarity, and Hospitality in Global Perspective partnership project.
  • 2021-2025: Crisis as opportunities: towards a level-telling field on migration and a new narrative of successful integration. 
  • 2021-2024: Migration and Translocality in West Africa (MiTra-WA) project. 

Publications

  1. Yaro, J. A., Teye, J. K., & Wiggins, S. (2024). Changing land and labour relations on cocoa farms in Sefwi, Ghana: Continuity and change. World Development Perspectives, 34, 100584.
  2. Teye, J. K., Yaro, J. A., & Wiggins, S. (2024). Modernizing cocoa production in Ghana: successes, constraints, and future possibilities of innovation diffusion in the cocoa sector. African Geographical Review, 1-14.
  3. Jarawura, F. X., Teye, J. K., Kleist, N., Lindegaard, L. S., & Quaye, D. A. (2024). ‘These days, things have changed’: historicizing current dynamics of climate-related migration in the savannah zone of Ghana. Climate and Development, 1-11.
  4. Teye, J. K., Awumbila, M., & Keseboa Darkwah, A. (2024). Gendered dynamics of the flow and use of migrant remittances in Northern Ghana. African Geographical Review, 43(2), 298-310.
  5. Teye, J. K., Yeboah, T., & Setrana, M. B. (2024). The Sustainable Development Goals, migration and regionalism: evidence from Africa. In The Elgar Companion to Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals (pp. 355-375). Edward Elgar Publishing.
  6. Jarawura, F. Teye, J. K., N. Kleist, Lindegaard, L. S. & Quaye D. (2024). Governance in past and present climate related migration, DIIS: Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier. Denmark. https://coilink.org/20.500.12592/6djhh2c 
  7. Crawley, H., & Teye, J. K. (2024). The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality (p. 749). London: Springer Nature.
  8. Ungruhe, C., Steinbrink, M., Teye, J. K. (2023). Mobile West Africa: Continuities and dynamics of migration in times of climatic change. Geographische Rundschau, 75(10), 30-35
  9. Teye, J. K., & Nikoi, E. (2023). Political settlements and the management of cocoa value chain in Ghana. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 58(6), 846-863.
  10. Kandilige, L., Teye, J. K., Setrana, M., & Badasu, D. M. (2023). ‘They'd beat us with whatever is available to them’: Exploitation and abuse of Ghanaian domestic workers in the Middle East. International Migration, 61(4), 240-256.
  11. Teye, J. K., Darkwah, A. K., Thorsen, D., Abutima, T. K., & Boateng, D. A. (2023). Negotiating Gender Roles and Power Relations Through the Management of International Migrant Remittances in a Patriarchal Community in Ghana. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 00219096231160695.
  12. Teye, J. K. (2022). Critical migration policy narratives from West Africa. International Migration, 60(4), 73-84.
  13. Teye, J.K (2022). Critical Migration Narratives from West Africa. International Migration. 2022, 1-12. DOI: 10.1111/imig.13012.   
  14. Teye, J.K and Nikoi, E (2021). Political Settlements and the Management of Cocoa Value Chain in Ghana. Journal of Asian and African Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00219096221079326
  15. Mensah, J and Teye, J.K (2021). A Geographic Theorization of Zongos in Urban Ghana: A Complex Systems Approach. Ghana Journal of Geography, 13(2), 66- 95.
  16. Yeboah, T., Kandilige, L., Bisong, A., Garba, F. and Teye, J.K (2021). The ECOWAS Free Movement Protocol and Diversity of Experiences of Different Categories of Migrants: A Qualitative Study. International Migration, 59(3), 228-244.
  17. Mantey, P, P, K and Teye, J.K (2021). Forest Dependence among Rural Households in Southern Ghana: Implications for Conservation and Poverty Reduction. Ghana Journal of Geography 13(1), 1-24
  18. Teye, J. K, Awumbila, M and Nikoi, E. (2019). Ambiguity and symbolism in the implementation of the ECOWAS Free Movement Protocol: Evidence from Ghana and Sierra Leone, African Human Mobility Review, 5(2), 1556-1582.
  19. Deshingkar, P.  Awumbila, M. and Teye, J.K. (2019). Victims of trafficking and modern slavery or agents of change? Migrants, brokers, and the state in Ghana and Myanmar, Journal of the British Academy, 7(s1), 77–106. 
  20. Awumbila, M., Deshingkar, P., Kandilige, L., Teye, J. K., & Setrana, M. (2019). Please, thank you and sorry–brokering migration and constructing identities for domestic work in Ghana. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45(14), 2655-2671.
  21. Yaro, J. A., Teye, K & Torvikey, D, G (2017). Agricultural commercialisation models, agrarian dynamics and local development in Ghana, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 44:3, 538-554. 
  22. Torvikey, D, Teye, J. K and Yaro, J (2017). Farm to farm Gendered Employment: The case of the Blue Skies Scheme in Ghana:  Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy 5(1) 77–97
  23. Awumbila, M., Teye, J. K., & Yaro, J. A. (2017). Social networks, migration trajectories and livelihood strategies of migrant domestic and construction workers in Accra, Ghana. Journal of African and Asian Studies, doi: 10.1177/0021909616634743.
  24. Awumbila, M., Teye, J. K., & Yaro, J. A. (2016). Of silent maids, skilled gardeners and careful madams: Gendered dynamics and strategies of migrant domestic workers in Accra, Ghana. GeoJournal, 81(3). doi: 10.1007/s10708-016-9711-5.
  25. Yaro, J. A., & Teye, J. K., Torvikey, D. (2016). Historical context of agricultural commercialization in Ghana: Changes in land and labor relations. Journal of African and Asian Studies. DOI: 10.1177/0021909616657368
  26. Yaro, J. A., Teye, J. K., & Awumbila, M. (2015). The life struggles and successes of the migrant construction worker in Accra, Ghana. Ghana Journal of Geography, 7(2), 113–131.
  27. Bawakyillenuo, S., Yaro, J. A., & Teye, J. K. (2016). Exploring the autonomous adaptation strategies to climate change and climate variability in selected villages in the rural northern savannah zone of Ghana. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 21(3), 361–382. DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2014.965671.
  28. Teye, J. K., Yaro, J. A., & Bawakyillenuo, S. (2015). Local farmers’ experiences and perceptions of climate change in the Northern Savannah Zone of Ghana. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 7(3), 327–347.
  29. Teye, J. K., Acheampong, A. A, and Setrana, M. K. (2015). Migration of health professionals from Ghana: Trends, drivers, and emerging issues. Current Politics and Economics of Africa, 8(3), 459–486.
  30. Yaro, J. A., Teye, J. K, & Bawakyillenuo, S. (2015). Local institutions and adaptive capacity to climate change/variability in the northern savannah of Ghana. Climate and Development, 7(3), 235–245. DOI:10.1080/17565529.2014.951018
  31. Teye, J. K., Arhim, A. A., Anamzoya, A. (2015). Achievements and challenges of the national health insurance in Ghana. Current Politics and Economics of Africa, 8(3), 487–511.
  32. Yaro, J. A., Teye, J. K., & Awumbila, M. (2015). The life struggles and successes of the migrant construction worker in Accra, Ghana. Ghana Journal of Geography, 7(2), 113–131.
  33. Teye, J. K, Teye, I. & Asiedu, M. O. (2015). Financing housing in Ghana: Challenges to the development of formal mortgage system. Journal of Housing and Built Environment, 30, 1–16.DOI: 10.1007/s10901-013-9376-z. 
  34. Obeng, F. A, Wrigley-Asante, C., & Teye, J. K. (2015). Working conditions in Ghana’s export processing zone and women’s empowerment. Work Organisation, Labour & Globalization,9(2), 64–78.
  35. Owusu, K., & Teye, J. K. (2015). Supplementing urban water supply with rainwater harvesting in Accra, Ghana. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 31(4), 630–639. DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2014.927752. 
  36. Teye, J. K., & Yebleh, M. (2015). Living without economic assets: Livelihoods of Liberian refugees in the Buduburam Camp, Ghana. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 16(3), 557–574. DOI 10.1007/s12134-014-0352-6. 
  37. Yiran, G.A., Teye, J. K., & Yiran, G.A.B. (2015). Accessibility and utilisation of maternal health services by migrant female head porters in Accra. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 16, 929–945. DOI: 10.1007/s12134-014-0372-2.
  38. Azabre, B. A., Teye, J. K., & Yaro, J. A. (2013). Malaria control strategies in the Kassena-Nankana East and West Districts of Ghana. Ghana Journal of Geography, 5(1), 102-120.
  39. Teye, J. K. (2013). Analyzing Forest resource governance in Africa: Proposition for an integrated policy network model. Journal of Forest Policy and Economics, 26, 63–70.
  40. Teye J. K (2013). Economic value of children and fertility preferences in a fishing community in Ghana. GeoJournal, 78, 697–708, DOI 10.1007/s10708-012-9460-z
  41. Teye, J. K (2013). Modern contraceptive use among women in the Asuogyaman District of Ghana: Is reliability more important than health concerns? African Journal of Reproductive Health, 17(2), 58–71.
  42. Teye, J. K. (2013). Corruption and illegal logging in Ghana. International Development Planning Review, 35(1), 1–19.
  43. Teye, J. K. (2012). Benefits, challenges, and dynamism of positionalities associated with mixed methods research in developing countries: Evidence from Ghana. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 6(4), 379–391.
  44. Joyce Komesuor and Teye, J. K. (2012). Effects of mass media and tobacco promotion on smoking among adolescents in Ghana. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2(9), 136–146. 
  45. Teye, J. K. (2011). Ambiguities of forest management decentralization in Ghana. Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, 3(4), 355–369
  46. Teye, J. K. (2011). A chronological assessment of Ghana’s forestry policies inprecolonial and colonial era: Lessons for forest management incontemporary Ghana. African Journal of Social Sciences, 1(2), 125–139.
  47. Teye, J. K. (2010). Policy networks and forest resource management in Ghana. Ghana Geographical Journal, 2, 137–162.
  48. Teye, J. K.  (2005). Condom use as a means of HIV/AIDS prevention and fertility control among the Krobos of Ghana. Norwegian Journal of Geography 59(1), 65–73 

 

    Books

  1. Crawley, H., & Teye, J. K. (2023). The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  2. Teye, J. K (ed) (2022). Migration in West Africa. Netherlands: Springer. 
  3. Awumbila, M, Badasu, D and Teye, J. K., (Eds) (2017). Migration in a Globalizing World: Perspectives from Ghana. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers. 

           Book Chapters 

  1. Teye, J. K., Yeboah, T., & Setrana, M. B. (2024). The Sustainable Development Goals, migration and regionalism: evidence from Africa. In The Elgar Companion to Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals (pp. 355-375). London: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  2. Teye, J. K., Lu, J., & Crawford, G. (2023). Inter-regional Migration in the Global South: Chinese Migrants in Ghana. In The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality (pp. 319-341). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  3. Teye, J. K., & Oucho, L. (2023). Policies towards Migration in Africa. In The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality (pp. 609-630). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  4. Crawley, H., & Teye, J. K. (2023). South–South Migration and Inequality: An Introduction. In The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality (pp. 1-22). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  5. Teye, J. K. (2022). Migration and development: A focus on Africa. In Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies (pp. 286-296). Routledge.
  6. Teye, J. K. (2022). Migration in West Africa: an introduction. In Migration in West Africa: IMISCOE Regional Reader (pp. 3-17). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  7. Mensah, J., Teye, J. K., & Setrana, M. B. (2022). The Janus-face of contemporary migration: Perspectives on West African return migration and transnationalism with a focus on Ghana and Senegal. Migration in West Africa, 237.
  8. Teye, J. K., & Nikoi, E. G. (2022). Climate-induced migration in West Africa. In Migration in West Africa: IMISCOE regional reader (pp. 79-105). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  9. Bauloz, C, McAdam M and Teye, J. K.  (2021). Human Trafficking in Migration Pathways: Trends, Challenges and New Forms of Cooperation. In McAuliffe, M. and A. Triandafyllidou (eds.). World Migration Report 2022. Geneva: International Organization for Migration. 
  10. Teye, J. K., Torvikey, D. G. and Yaro, J, A (2021). Changing Labour Relations in Commercial Agrarian Landscapes in Ghana. In: Jha P., Chambati W., Ossome L. (eds) Labour Questions in the Global South. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4635-2_19. Pp 413-438. 
  11. Sparreboom, T., Badasu, D. B., Teye, J. K., Kandilige, L. & Setrana, M.B. (2018). Immigration and economic growth in Ghana. In OECD/ILO. How immigrants contribute to Ghana’s economy (pp.109-125). Paris: OECD Publishing. 
  12. Teye, J.K. (2017). Environmental Change and Migration in Africa. In Awumbila, M, Badasu, D and Teye, J.K (Eds) (2017). Migration in a Globalizing World: Perspectives from Ghana. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers (pp 89-106). 
  13. Obour, P.B, Owusu, K and Teye, J.K (2017) From Seasonal Migrants to Settiers: Climate Change and Permanent Migration to the Transitional Zone of Ghana. In Tonah, S. Boatemaa, M.S and Arthur, J.A (Eds). Migration and Development in Africa: Trends, Challenges and Policy Implications. New York and London: Arthur Lexington Books.  
  14. Teye, J. K., Alhassan, O., & Setrana, M (2017). Evolution and nature of diaspora engagement policies in Ghana. In J. R. Mangala (Ed), Africa and its Global Diaspora: The Policy and Politics of Emigration. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
  15. Yaro, J. A., Teye, J. K, & Bawakyillenuo, S. (2016). An assessment of determinants of adaptive capacity to climate change/variability in the rural savannah of Ghana. In J. A. Yaro & J. Hesselberg (Eds.), Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability in Rural West Africa (pp. 59-82). Cham: Springer.
  16. Teye, J. K. & Owusu, K. (2015). Dealing with climate change in the Coastal Savannah Zone of Ghana: In situ adaptation strategies and migration. In F. Hillmann, M. Pahl, B. Rafflenbeal & H. Sterly (Eds), Environmental Change, Adaptation and Migration (pp 223-244). New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 
  17. Teye, J. K., Awumbila, M., & Benneh, Y. (2015). Intra-regional migration in the ECOWAS region: Trends and emerging challenges. In A., B. Akoutou, R. Sohn, M. Vogl & D. Yeboah (Eds), Migration and Civil Society as Development Drivers - A Regional Perspective (pp. 97-124). Bonn: Zei Centre for European Integration Studies.
  18. Awumbila, M., Benneh, Y., Teye, J. K. & Atiim, G. (2014). Across Artificial Borders: An Assessment of Labour Migration in the ECOWAS Region. Brussels: ACP Observatory on Migration and IOM. https://publications.iom.int/sytems/files/pdf/ecowas_region.pdf
  19. Teye, J. K. (2013). Forest governance in Ghana. In G. Owusu, P. W. K. Yankson, S. Agyei-Mensah & E.M. Attua (Eds). Selected Readings in Geography (pp.179-192). Accra: Woeli Publishing Services. 
  20. Teye, J. K. (2013). Ghana’s National Strategy on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+): Implications of Existing Benefit Sharing Mechanisms. In S, Maillet, L, Valcourt (Eds). Natural Resources: Conservation Strategies, Globalisation & Politics and Sustainable Uses (pp.103-128). New York: Nova Science Publishers.

 

Peer-Reviewed Technical Publications/Working Papers

  1. Teye, J. K., Awumbila, M. A. and Darkwa, A. (2017). Gendered dynamics of remitting and remittance use in Northern Ghana. Migrating out of Poverty (MOP) Working Paper 48 Sussex: University of Sussex. 
  2. Awumbila, M., Deshingkar, P, Kandilige, L, Teye, J.K and Setrana, M (2017). Brokerage in migrant domestic work in Ghana: complex social relations and mixed outcomes. Migrating out of Poverty (MOP)Working Paper 47. Sussex: University of Sussex. 
  3. Awumbila, M.,   Boakye-Yiadom, L.  Egger, Eva-Maria, Litchfield, J., Teye, J. K. and Yeboah, C. (2016). Gains and Losses from Internal Migration: Evidence from Migrant-Sending Households in Ghana. Migrating out of Poverty (MOP) Working Paper 44. Sussex: University of Sussex. 
  4. Darkwah, A. Awumbila,M and Teye, J. K. ( 2016). Of Local Places and Local People: Understanding Migration in Peripheral Capitalist Outpost. Migrating out of Poverty (MOP) Working Paper 43. Sussex: University of Sussex.
  5. Awumbila, M., Teye, J. K., Litchfield, J.  Boakye-Yiadom, L. Deshingkar, P. & Quartey P. (2015).  Are migrant households better off than non-migrant households? Evidence from Ghana. Migrating out of Poverty (MOP) Working Paper 28. Sussex: University of Sussex. 
  6. Awumbila, M., Owusu, G., & Teye, J. K. (2014) Can rural-urban migration into slums reduce poverty? Evidence from Ghana. Migrating out of Poverty (MOP) Working Paper 13. Sussex: University of Sussex. 
  7. Awumbila, M. & Teye, J. K. (2014). Diaspora and migration policy and institutional frameworks. Ghana Country Report, INTERACT RR 2014/31, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, San Domenico di Fiesole (FI): European University Institute.
  8. Teye, J. K. (2005). Deforestation in Ghana. In K. Potthoff, K. (ed.), Human Landscape Ecology Acta Geographica–Trondheim, Series A, No. 10. pp 9-23, ISSN 1502-2390, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.