naa a22 4500 510809251 CHVBK 20180411083434.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12134-012-0249-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12134-012-0249-1 Perceptions of the Impact of Refugees on Host Communities: The Case of Liberian Refugees in Ghana [Elektronische Daten] [Samuel Codjoe, Peter Quartey, Cynthia Tagoe, Holly Reed] This paper analyses the effects of the presence of Liberian refugees on cost of goods/services and business activities, pressure on resources/facilities, social vices and environmental activities based on perceptions (although attempts have been made to buttress the perceptions with information from focus group discussions) of hosts and refugees. The analysis included gender and type of occupation from within and among the groups. The aim was to ascertain whether the presence of refugees are viewed as having positive, negative or mixed impacts. Data are from 10 focus group discussions and 120 household surveys undertaken in April 2007. Results show that although there are gender and occupational differentials, host communities contend that refugees have increased the costs of goods and services, brought pressure on facilities, increased social vices and deteriorated environmental resources. However, refugees are viewed as a source of income and market, and trade partners, who have brought a lot of infrastructural developments. Thus, one can describe refugee presence as having mixed impacts. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2012 Liberian refugees nationallicence Gender nationallicence Perceptions nationallicence Impact nationallicence Social vices nationallicence Goods and services nationallicence Environmental activities nationallicence Codjoe Samuel Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG 96, Legon, Ghana aut Quartey Peter Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG 74, Legon, Ghana aut Tagoe Cynthia Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG 74, Legon, Ghana aut Reed Holly CUNY Institute for Demographic Research and Department of Sociology, Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), 11367, New York, NY, USA aut Journal of International Migration and Integration Springer Netherlands 14/3(2013-08-01), 439-456 1488-3473 14:3<439 2013 14 12134 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-012-0249-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-012-0249-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Codjoe Samuel Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG 96, Legon, Ghana aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Quartey Peter Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG 74, Legon, Ghana aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tagoe Cynthia Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG 74, Legon, Ghana aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Reed Holly CUNY Institute for Demographic Research and Department of Sociology, Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), 11367, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of International Migration and Integration Springer Netherlands 14/3(2013-08-01), 439-456 1488-3473 14:3<439 2013 14 12134 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer