December 2012

A discussion of the social environmental state of law: The cooperation between state and collectiveness

  This article intends to examine the formation process of the social environmental state of law, recognized as a necessity for the modern society. The proposal builds on the understanding that, in order to promote the environmental protection, the state of law had established some legal instruments. In fact, one of the main tools used was the constitutional order for the cooperation between the civil society...

Author(s): Anatércia Rovani

December 2012

Gender and labour force inequality in small-scale gold mining in Ghana

  Gender inequality is an inevitable concomitant of the innate poverty in humanity, a situation to which the Ghanaian society is no exception. This paper explores the underlying elements of gender inequality pertinent to women in the small-scale gold mining sector in Ghana drawing inference from a case study of the Tarkwa-Nsuaem municipal assembly area in the western Region. The contribution of women to the...

Author(s): Romanus D. Dinye and Michael O. Erdiaw-Kwasie

December 2012

Methodological pathways to kinship networks and international return migration

  Although international migration has received significant attention in the literature, this is usually in respect of development and remittances. Methodological issues on the subject are very scarce more so relative to the interface of kinship and international return migration. Yet methodological issues remain crucial to useful understanding of the processes and dynamics of the problem. This...

Author(s): Olayinka Akanle and Olutayo A. O.