Edmond Akwasi Agyeman is an Associate Professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of the Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development (AAMUSTED) in Kumasi, Ghana. He is also the Acting Deputy Director of the Directorate of Research, International Programmes and Institutional Advancement (DRIPIA) of the same University. He has extensive experience in the field of research, grants, project management, training and international collaboration.

Prof. Agyeman obtained a PhD in Migration Studies from the Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid, Spain in 2012. In 2009, he obtained an MPhil degree in Sociological Studies from the same institution. Prior to that Prof. Agyeman studied at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome, Italy from 2000 to 2007 where he obtained a BA in Theology (2003), Master’s degree in Pastoral Theology of Human Mobility (2005), and an MPhil in Social Philosophy of Human Mobility (2007). The last two degrees were completed at the Scalabrini International Migration Institute (SIMI) which is an affiliate of the Urban University. In 2010, Prof. Agyeman was a visiting PhD fellow at the Centre for Migration Law of the Radboud University in the Netherlands. During the 2012/2013 academic year, he undertook post-doctoral fellowship at the Tohoku University in Japan. His research interest focuses on international migration, return migration and development, migrant integration, migration and border security, post-coloniality, African integration, higher education in Africa, social stratification, ethnicity, race, religion and culture.

Prof. Agyeman has over the years undertaken several research collaborations with scholars and institutions across the globe. In June 2015, he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Milan/SIMI summer school. He was a visiting fellow at the West African Research Center (WARC) in Dakar, Senegal in September/October, 2016. Prof. Agyeman was also a visiting lecturer at the University of Hamburg in Germany (Center for Interdisciplinary Studies–ISA Zentrum) in October 2022. Due to his participation in the MiTraWA project, he was also a visiting lecturer at the University of Passau (Department of Human Geography) in Germany in May/June, 2023. He is the co-editor with Dr. Akwasi K. Amoako-Gyampah and Prof. Dr. Bea Lundt of ‘Education in Ghana: History and Politics’. Langaa, 2023.

Academic Qualifications

• • PhD – Migration Studies – Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain, 2007-2012
  • MPhil – Sociological Studies – Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain – 2007-2009
  • MPhil – Social Philosophy – Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome, Italy -2005 – 2007
  • MA – Pastoral Theology – Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome, Italy, 2003- 2005
  • BA – Theology -Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome, Italy, 200-2003.

Professional Affiliations/ Memberships

• • African Studies Association (ASA)
  • Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
  • Japan Society of Sociologists (2012-2014)
  • University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG)

Teaching Interests

• • African Diaspora
  • Migration and Development
  • Post-coloniality and Africa’s Development
  • African Integration
  • Peoples and Cultures of Ghana
  • Marriage in Selected Ghanaian Communities
  • Ethnicity and National Integration
  • Population Growth and Urbanisation in Ghana
  • Modern Trends in Religion and New Religious Movements

Research Interests and Supervision

• • International migration,
  • Return migration and development
  • Migrant integration,
  • Migration and border security,
  • Post-coloniality,
  • African integration,
  • Higher education in Africa,
  • Social stratification,
  • Ethnic and racial studies
  • Religion and culture

Selected Publications

Articles in Refereed Journals

• • Agyeman, E. A. (2022). Ghanaian Immigrants in a Northern Italian Town: Between Social Exclusion and Onward Migration to the United Kingdom. Journal of International Migration and Integration,  23, 285–302. doi.org/10.1007/s12134-021-00816-2.
  • Tweneboah, S. & Agyeman, E. A. (2021). Traditional African Religion and Trans-Saharan Migration from Ghana: Analysis of the Role of Nkoranza Deities in the Youth Migration to Libya. African Diaspora, 13(1-2), 204-229, doi.10.1163/18725465-bja10016.
  • Agyeman E. A., Tamanja, M. J. T. and Bingab, B. B. B. (2021). Dimensions of University Governance and Community Relations in Ghana. Africa Development, 46(1), 45-69.
  • Agyeman, E. A. (2020). Between the Imagined and the Reality: Threat of African Invasion and Spain’s Migration Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. African Human Mobility Review, 6(3), 53-73.
  • Agyeman E. A., Tamanja, M. J. T. & Bingab, B. B. B. (2020). University-Community Relations in Ghana: Traditional Authority as a Stakeholder. Africa Development, 45(4), 1-22.
  • Setrana B. M., Kyei, R. K. O & Agyeman, E. A. (2019). Internal Displacement in Nigeria: Dynamics and Challenges. African Journal of Economy and Society, 16(1), 1-18.
  • Agyeman, E. A. and Amoako-Gyampah, A. (2019). Cross cultural Ties between Ghana and Egypt:  Agency of the Egyptian Community in Accra, Ghana. African Human Mobility Review, 5(2), 1636 -1649.
  • Agyeman, E. A. & Carsamer, E. (2018). Pentecostalism and the Spirit of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Ghana: the Case of the Maame Sarah Prayer Camp at Goka in the Jaman North District of Ghana. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 36(3): 303-218.
  • Agyeman E. A. (2016). Brain for Industries in the Global North: the Role of Educational Institutions in Ghana as a Migrant Sending Country. Studi Emigrazione/International Journal of Migration Studies, LIII, 201(1), 61-80.
  • Obour, P. B., Owusu K., Agyeman E. A., Ahenkan A., & Navarro Madrid À. (2016). Impacts of dams on local livelihoods: a study of the Bui Hydroelectric Project in Ghana. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 32(2), 286-300.
  • Agyeman, E. A. & Fernandez Garcia, M., (2016). Connecting Return Intentions and Home Investment: The Case of Ghanaian Migrants in Southern Europe. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 17(3), 745 – 759.
  • Agyeman, E. A. (2015). African Migrants in Japan: Social Capital and Economic Integration. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 23(4), 463 – 485.
  • Agyeman, E. A. (2011). Holding on to European Residence Rights Vs the Desire to Return to Origin Country: A Study of the Return Intentions and Return Constraints of Ghanaian Migrants in Vic. Migraciones, 30: 135-159.
  • Agyeman, E. A. (2011). Religion, Race and Migrants’ Integration in Italy: The Case of Ghanaian Migrant Churches in the Province of Vicenza, Veneto. Yearbook on Human Rights and Humanitarian Action, Special Issue, 8: 105 – 116.

Edited Book

• • Amoako-Gyampah, A. K., Lundt, B. & Agyeman, E. A. (Eds.). (2023). Education in Ghana: History and Politics. Bamenda: Langaa Publishers

Book Chapters

• • Agyeman E. A. (2023). Expatriate Academics and the Development of University Education in Ghana. In: Amoako-Gyampah, A. K., Lundt, B. & Agyeman, E. A. (Eds.). Education in Ghana: History and Politics, Bamenda: Langaa Publishers. Pp. 439-466.
  •  Amoako-Gyampah, A. K., Lundt, B. & Agyeman, E. A. (2023). Introduction. In: Amoako-Gyampah, A. K., Lundt, B. & Agyeman, E. A. (Eds.). Education in Ghana: History and Politics. Bamenda: Langaa Publishers. Pp. 1-20.
  • Agyeman, E. A. (2023). Religion, Conflict Transformation, Peacebuilding and  Development in Ghana: The Role of the National Peace Council. In Kilonzo, S., Chitando, E. & Tarusarira, J. (eds.). Palgrave Handbook of Religion, Peacebuilding and Development in Africa. Palgrave-Macmillan.
  • Agyeman E. A. (2021). The Community, Belonging and Agency in Akan Proverbs. In F. Nyamnjoh, P. Nwosu & H. M. Yosimbom (eds.), Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs. Bamenda: Langaa Publishers, pp. 59-76.
  • Agyeman, E. A. & Kyei, O. R. (2019). Religious Identities and Transnational Religious Practices of Second-Generation African Migrants in Amsterdam. In A. Adogame, R. Barreto & W. da Rosa (eds.), Migration and Public Discourse in World Christianity, Minnesota: Fortress Press, pp. 51-65.
  • Agyeman, E. A. (2019). Forward. In J. Domfeh-Boateng & O. S. Imhangbe, The Essentials of Leadership, Meadville, Pennsylvania: Christian Faith Publishing, pp. 9-10.
  • Setrana B. M., E. A. Agyeman & Kyei, M. R. K. O. (2017). Internal Displacement and Cross Boarder Movement of Nigerian Nationals. In IOM, Compilation of Research Papers Presented at the Conference on National Migration Policy Thematic Areas, IOM: Abuja pp. 39-55.
  • Agyeman, E. A. & Setrana M. B. (2014). Human Mobility in Ghana. In F. Baggio (ed.), Africans on the Move: Human Mobility in Ghana, Nigeria, Angola and South Africa, Cape Town: SIHMA, pp. 13-69.
  • Agyeman, E. A. & Setrana M. B. (2014). Human Mobility in Nigeria. In F. Baggio (ed.), Africans on the Move: Human Mobility in Ghana, Nigeria, Angola and South Africa, Cape Town: SIHMA, pp. 70-116.
  • Carciotto, S. & Agyeman, E. A. (2017). The African Approach to Regional Integration and Migration. Cape Town: Scalabrini Institute for Human Mobility in Africa (SIHMA).