Choosing “Home”: Diasporic Return Migration to Accra, Ghana

Choosing "Home": Diasporic Return Migration to Accra, Ghana

Dubie Toa-Kwapong
Mellon Sawyer PhD Dissertating Fellow
Cultural Anthropology
Duke University

February 24, 2022
5:00 - 6:00 pm320 Languages and by Zoom.

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Dubie's research is centered on the experiences of contemporary diasporic return migrants (or returnees) to Accra, the capital city of Ghana. A growing group of diasporans are choosing to move "back" to the African continent and choosing Accra as their site of return. This project explores the relationship between emotion and choice in contemporary return migrations of Afrodiasporans to Accra, focusing on the impact of nostalgia, as produced by both first-hand and second-hand memories.

Dubie Toa-Kwapong is a graduate student in the Duke University Cultural Anthropology Ph.D. program. She earned a B.A. in Anthropology from Macalester College. Her current research on return migration builds on her undergraduate honors thesis, "Taking It Back to the Motherland": The Untold Tales of Accra's Returnees. She is a contributing writer to the Norwegian cultural and political periodical, Syn og Segn.

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