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Journal articles on the topic "Ghanaian immigrants"

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Atiso, Kodjo, Jenna Kammer, and Denice Adkins. "The information needs of the Ghanaian immigrant." Information and Learning Science 119, no. 5/6 (2018): 317–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ils-02-2018-0013.

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Purpose This study aims to examine the information needs of Ghanaian immigrants who have settled in Maryland in the USA. Design/methodology/approach Using an ethnographic approach, immigrants from Ghana shared their information needs, challenges and sources they rely upon for information. In total, 50 Ghanaian immigrants participated in this study. Findings Findings indicate that like many immigrant populations, Ghanaians who have immigrated to the USA primarily rely on personal networks, mediated through social media, as their primary sources of information. Despite the availability of immigration resources in the library, Ghanaian immigrants may not view it as a useful resource. Social implications While this study examines a single immigrant population, its social implications are important to libraries who aim to serve immigrant populations in their community. Originality/value This study provides new information about African immigrant population, a population whose information needs have rarely been covered in the literature.
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Pryce, Daniel K. "Ghanaian Immigrants’ Experiences With and Perceptions of U.S. Police." Criminal Justice Review 41, no. 4 (2016): 469–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0734016816669982.

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Focus groups help researchers obtain rich, experiential data in order to increase our sociological and psychological understanding of human interactions. In this study, I used qualitative data obtained from two focus groups, comprising 13 participants from the Ghanaian community, to understand Ghanaian immigrants’ personal experiences with and perceptions of the police in the United States. The rise in immigration from sub-Saharan Africa means that these immigrants’ views of and experiences with the police will become increasingly important to successful policing in local communities across the United States. The results of this study point to the need for U.S. police to employ procedural justice and distributive justice in their dealings with Ghanaian immigrants. These immigrants also believe that both their skin color and foreign accent pose a disadvantage when dealing with police. By addressing these concerns, the U.S. police would gain the trust and cooperation of the Ghanaian immigrant community. The policy implications of the findings are discussed.
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Guerini, Federica. "“It sounds like the language spoken by those living by the seaside” – language attitudes towards the local Italo-romance variety of Ghanaian immigrants in Bergamo." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2018, no. 254 (2018): 103–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2018-0035.

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Abstract In this article, I focus on the position of Bergamasco, the Italo-romance variety spoken in the Province of Bergamo (Northern Italy), in the linguistic repertoire of the local Ghanaian immigrant community. I argue that Ghanaian immigrants do not speak Bergamasco since the local people refrain from speaking Bergamasco to them. Bergamasco can be regarded as a we-code (Gumperz, John. 1982. Discourse Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.) of the indigenous community, whereas Italian – in most cases, a simplified variety of standard Italian – is the default choice when communicating with immigrants. The lack of input in combination with negative attitudes and a lack of motivation to acquire the dialect triggers a self-reinforcing dynamic, making the incorporation of Bergamasco into the linguistic repertoire of Ghanaian immigrants unlikely. Excerpts from a sample of face-to-face interactions and semi-structured interviews involving a group of first-generation Ghanaian immigrants reveal that Bergamasco tends to be perceived as a sort of “secret language” deliberately used by local people to exclude immigrants and other outsiders. This stereotype originates from and is reinforced by lack of competence on the part of the migrants, but is devoid of any foundation.
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Yendaw, Elijah, Frank Mawutor Borbor, and Kwadwo Asante-Afari. "Assessing the Motivations for Migration Among West African Immigrants in Itinerant Retail Trading in Ghana." Journal of Planning and Land Management 1, no. 1 (2019): 184–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.36005/jplm.v1i1.12.

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Though West African itinerant immigrant traders have become an indispensable constituent of the Ghanaian economy, it is as yet unknown what their motivations for migration are in the extant literature. Using a mixed-methods approach, this paper examined the drivers of migration among West African itinerant petty traders in the Accra Metropolis of Ghana. The paper, which was underpinned by the push-pull migration theory, surveyed 779 itinerant immigrant traders and conducted nine key informant interviews. Descriptive and bivariate statistics as well as chi-square were the main analytical techniques used to present the findings. The results indicated that most of the immigrants migrated into the country primarily to hunt for job opportunities. The analysis further revealed that about a third of the immigrants selected Ghana as their preferred destination in West Africa due to the belief that Ghanaians are hospitable people. The practical implications and theoretical contributions of this paper are discussed.
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Kumi-Yeboah, Alex. "Educational Resilience and Academic Achievement of Immigrant Students From Ghana in an Urban School Environment." Urban Education 55, no. 5 (2016): 753–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042085916660347.

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Educational resilience is often linked to educational success of various immigrant youth including Black immigrants despite the challenges they face. However, few studies have explored the factors that promote and/or constrain educational resilience and academic achievement of Black immigrants. To address this gap, the current article focuses on the educational resilience and academic achievement of Ghanaian-born immigrants ( N = 60) attending urban high schools in the United States. Results indicate that self-regulation, technology, religious faith, past experiences, parental support, resources, and safety issues played an important role. Implications and recommendations for educators and policymakers are discussed.
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Pryce, Daniel K., Devon Johnson, and Edward R. Maguire. "Procedural Justice, Obligation to Obey, and Cooperation with Police in a Sample of Ghanaian Immigrants." Criminal Justice and Behavior 44, no. 5 (2016): 733–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854816680225.

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Theory and research highlight the importance of procedural justice for inculcating people’s obligation to obey and willingness to cooperate with legal authorities, yet questions remain about the universality of these relationships across cultures and contexts. We examine the influence of procedural justice and other factors on Ghanaian immigrants’ obligation to obey and willingness to cooperate with police. The findings suggest that when police are perceived to behave in a procedurally just manner, people feel an increased obligation to obey their directives and willingness to cooperate with them. Perceived police effectiveness does not influence Ghanaian immigrants’ obligation to obey police, but is the most dominant factor in shaping their willingness to cooperate with police. Respondents’ views of police in Ghana did not influence obligation or cooperation. The implications of the results for theory development, empirical research, and policies intended to improve police–immigrant relations are discussed.
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Nkrumah, Amos. "Immigrants’ Transnational Entrepreneurial Activities: the Case of Ghanaian Immigrants in Canada." Journal of International Migration and Integration 19, no. 1 (2017): 195–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12134-017-0535-z.

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Pryce, Daniel K. "The Relative Effects of Normative and Instrumental Models of Policing on Police Empowerment: Evidence From a Sample of Sub-Saharan African Immigrants." Criminal Justice Policy Review 30, no. 3 (2016): 428–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0887403416675019.

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This study examines the relative impacts of normative and instrumental models of policing on willingness to empower the police in a sample of sub-Saharan African immigrants in the United States. Using data from a survey of 304 Ghanaian immigrants, obligation to obey, procedural justice, effectiveness, and gender predicted police empowerment; legitimacy of Ghana police and risk of sanctioning did not. The results also show that obligation to obey may be distinct from legitimacy. The findings from the current study point to the importance of the process-based model of policing in different geopolitical contexts, including the sub-Saharan African immigrant community in the United States. Specifically, obligation to obey and procedural justice play pivotal roles in engendering willingness to empower the police in the sub-Saharan African immigrant community. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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Boamah, Eric. "Information culture of Ghanaian immigrants living in New Zealand." Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication 67, no. 8/9 (2018): 585–606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gkmc-07-2018-0065.

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Coe, Cati, and Serah Shani. "Cultural Capital and Transnational Parenting: The Case of Ghanaian Migrants in the United States." Harvard Educational Review 85, no. 4 (2015): 562–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.17763/0017-8055.85.4.562.

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What does cultural capital mean in a transnational context? In this article, Cati Coe and Serah Shani illustrate through the case of Ghanaian immigrants to the United States that the concept of cultural capital offers many insights into immigrants' parenting strategies, but that it also needs to be refined in several ways to account for the transnational context in which migrants and their children operate. The authors argue that, for many immigrants, the folk model of success means that they seek for their children skills, knowledge, and ways of being in the world that are widely valued in the multiple contexts in which they operate. For Ghanaian migrants, parenting includes using social and institutional resources from Ghana as well as the United States. The multiplicity and contradictions in cultural capital across different social fields complicate their parenting “projects” and raise questions about the reproduction of social class through the intergenerational transmission of cultural capital.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Ghanaian immigrants"

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Amankwah, Benjamin. "IMMIGRANTS’ SMALL BUSINESSES: THE GHANAIAN EXPERIENCE IN COLUMBUS, OHIO." Connect to this document online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1095437052.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Geography, 2004.<br>Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], v, 69 p. : map. Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-69).
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Kodwo, Stephen. "Determinants of International Long-Distance Eldercare: Evidence from Ghanaian Immigrants in the United States." VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1813.

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Studies of Ghanaians who have immigrated to the United States indicate that both economic and emotional support continue to be provided to non-migrant families in Ghana. However support to “family relatives” has been studied generally, without specifying age. Thus, relationships between immigrants and their elderly relatives, particularly those who may be frail and vulnerable, have not been the focus of previous research. In addition, it is necessary to examine the dynamics that shape attitudes towards elderly people, and which in turn influence eldercare patterns among Ghanaian immigrants. Based on the literature, the researcher identified four factors relevant to international long-distance eldercare: (1) support caregivers receive (or previously received) from elderly relatives, (2) filial obligation towards elderly relatives, (3) perceived vulnerability of the elderly people in Ghana, and (4) vulnerabilities that make immigrants unable to provide eldercare. The main objective of this study was to examine the extent to which these four factors shape the provision of eldercare by Ghanaian immigrants in the United States to their elderly relatives in Ghana. To achieve this objective, a convenience sample of 124 Ghanaian immigrants who resided in a large metropolitan area in the southern United States was surveyed. Study results reveal that the dominant type of eldercare provided was emotional care, but special circumstances in elderly people’s lives, such as serious financial problems may significantly increase their chances of receiving financial support. For caregivers, their levels of income significantly determined the level of financial support provided to their elderly relatives and how often they visited them. It was also found that there are always some siblings left in Ghana to take care of the physical needs of elderly parents in the absence of those who have migrated. Elderly people having multiple migrant adult children or relatives were more likely to receive financial support from multiple sources. Factors contributing to immigrants supporting elders in Ghana included feelings of high obligation toward elderly relatives, readiness to show love and appreciation for elderly relatives, and acceptance of eldercare as a moral obligation for all adult children. Overall, there was evidence to conclude that most immigrants provided care to their elderly relatives and that most were influenced by the social and cultural tenets that underlie elder caregiving in Ghanaian society. Implications of the study for social work research include the importance of further exploration of factors that might result in reduction in the care immigrants provide to their non-migrant elderly relatives, and replication of the current study with the view of explaining the inability of both elderly relatives’ and immigrants’ vulnerabilities to predict level of care. Given the possible psychological distress associated with caregiving and its effect on immigrants’ time and financial resources, social work practitioners need to be sensitive to the financial and emotional aspects of long distance caregiving by providing services to caregivers who may need them. Policy implications include maximizing remittances by reducing transaction cost and using remittance as leverage for financial grants for family investments.
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Asuo-Mante, Eric K. "Ghanaian Immigrants in United States: American Dreams, a Shattered Heaven, & Racism." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1529.

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Thesis advisor: Sarah Babb<br>Thesis advisor: Eve Spangler<br>In recent years, African immigrants have become a large and growing segment of the American population. Like most migrants in the United States these travelers seek to attain the American Dream; they therefore mostly journey to the U.S. in the hope of bettering their lives as well as their family relations back home in Africa. But despite the continually increasing African demography in America, there is a lack of literature on the experience of African immigrants in the United States. This research is an ethnographic study of a sole group of African immigrants in America: Ghanaian migrants. This paper focuses on learning about the life experiences of these settlers before and after they migrate to the United States. Questions that this research addresses include: Why do these migrants journey to the U.S.? What ideas do these immigrants have about the U.S. before migrating to this nation? After arriving in America do their preconceived ideas change or remain the same? How do the Ghanaian migrants change their life to adapt to the American culture? What are their views about American culture and life in the U.S.?<br>Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2010<br>Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: Sociology
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Yeboah, Samuel. "SOCIALIZATION AND IDENTITY OF GHANAIAN SECOND GENERATION IMMIGRANTS IN GREATER CINCINNATI, OHIO, USA." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1196786508.

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Okoree, Edmund Nkansah. "Adaptation of Ghanaian immigrants in Metropolitan Toronto, a focus on the spatial aspects of their labour market activity." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape4/PQDD_0014/NQ52210.pdf.

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Owusu-Boakyewaah, Olivia. "THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: THE IMPACT OF PERCEPTION AND KNOWLEDGE ON WILLINGNESS TO SEEK MEDCIAL [i.e., medical] HELP AMONG GHANAIAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES." VCU Scholars Compass, 2011. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2465.

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This correlational study explored the knowledge, perceived seriousness, and willingness to seek medical help for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) among Ghanaian Immigrants currently residing in the Unites States. Study participants were 163 Ghanaian Immigrants between the ages of 45 and 90, attending Ghanaian community churches in Virginia and Maryland. Significant results include a positive correlation between knowledge and perceived seriousness of the disease, perceived seriousness of the disease was negatively correlated with caregiving experience. These results as well as several seemingly counterintuitive findings are discussed in terms of the Health Disparities and Psychometric challenges. Specifically, these results points to the necessity for future research and implication for action in the following areas: 1) Further qualitative exploration to develop a deep, rich understandings of the phenomenon of AD among Ghanaian Immigrants, 2) Improved cultural sensitivity in psychometric assessment with immigrant populations of AD knowledge, perceptions, and willingness to seek assistance, 3) Person Centeredness and Cultural Humility in Educational Interventions to empower individuals and parallel existing cultural beliefs rather than displacing them.
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Awadzi, Raymond K. "Entrenching African Pentecostalism in the United States of America: A Study of a Ghanaian Founded Charismatic Church in South Florida." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2475.

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For the past three decades, there has been a rapid growth of African Pentecostal Christianity on America’s Christian religious scene. In general, researchers in Christian mission studies have concluded that the flow of Christian religious currents from Africa and other Third World countries to the West is something of a Christian mission in reverse process. Using agency and invention of tradition as the theoretical leads, this study explores the roles lay immigrants played in the rooting of the Christian Restoration Ministries International (CRMI), a Ghanaian founded charismatic church, in Miami, as a case study of how African Pentecostal churches originate in America. The study also shows how the Christian Restoration Ministries International (CRMI), practices an invented version of Ghanaian Pentecostalism. The study is field-work based. It concludes that the so called reverse mission thrives on the crucial roles of lay African migrant worshipers and their inventiveness.
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Donkor, Martha. "The education of immigrant women, prospects and challenges for Ghanaian immigrant women in Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0019/NQ53876.pdf.

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Quaye, Joseph O. "Parental Involvement of Ghanaian and Nigerian Immigrant Parents in Urban Public Schools." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3233.

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Abstract Immigrant parents face unique challenges in getting involved in their children's education. Research is limited about how immigrant parents cope with these challenges in supporting their children's education. The purpose of this qualitative study, as reflected in the central research question, was to describe the lived experiences of Ghanaian and Nigerian immigrant parents in relation to their involvement in their children's education. The conceptual framework was based on Epstein's theory of parental involvement concerning how the school, family, and community relate to each other. A phenomenological design was used, and participants included 11 Ghanaian and Nigerian immigrant parents living in an urban city in the eastern region of the United States whose children were enrolled in public schools. Data were collected from participant responses to individual interviews that included 10 open-ended questions. Data were analyzed using the modified van Kaam method of analysis. Findings indicated that immigrant parents believed frequent communication with teachers was the most important component of Epstein's parental involvement model and that they should also support teachers in resolving disciplinary issues at school. This study contributes to positive social change by helping educators design and implement strategies that encourage immigrant parents to become actively involved in their children's education, which may lead to improved student achievement and socioeconomic mobility for students.
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Ocran, Kweku Siripi. "AN EXAMINATION OF GHANAIAN IMMIGRANT INSTITUTIONS IN GREATER CINCINNATI AREA OF THE SOUTH WEST OHIO, USA." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1113849012.

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Books on the topic "Ghanaian immigrants"

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Attah-Poku, Agyemang. The socio-cultural adjustment question: The role of Ghanaian immigrant ethnic associations in America. Avebury, 1996.

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Attah-Poku, Agyemang. The socio-cultural adjustment question: The role of Ghanaian immigrant ethnic associations in America. Avebury, 1996.

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Nkrumah-Boateng, Rodney. Abrokyir nkomo: Reflections of a Ghanaian immigrant. R. Nkrumah-Boateng, 2008.

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Nkrumah-Boateng, Rodney. Abrokyir nkomo: Reflections of a Ghanaian immigrant. R. Nkrumah-Boateng, 2008.

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Abrokyir nkomo: Reflections of a Ghanaian immigrant. R. Nkrumah-Boateng, 2008.

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Manuh, Takyiwaa. Migrants and citizens: Economic crisis in Ghana and the search for opportunity in Toronto, Canada. UMI Dissertation Services, 2002.

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ill, Isadora Rachel, ed. In the small, small night. Greenwillow Books, 2005.

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Black African neo-diaspora: Ghanian immigrant experiences in the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio area. Lexington Books, 2008.

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Darko, Jonas. In spite of: Lessons of cultural adjustment. J. Darko-Yeboah, 2003.

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Kelman, Stephen. Pigeon English. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

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Book chapters on the topic "Ghanaian immigrants"

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"Structure and Composition of Ghanaian Immigrant Families in the United States." In The African Diaspora in the United States and Europe. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315612287-4.

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Stanley, Brian. "Migrant Churches." In Christianity in the Twentieth Century. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691196848.003.0016.

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This chapter assesses how migratory trajectories in the twentieth century became channels of transmission of southern or eastern styles of Christianity to urban locations in the northern and western hemispheres, so that Latino/a, Chinese, Korean, and—rather later—African churches became for the first time highly visible elements enriching the tapestry of Christian life in North America and Europe. Some of these transmitted Christianities were very ancient—such as the Assyrian Church of the East. Other varieties of migrant Christianity were of much more recent origin. Those that have attracted most contemporary scholarly interest were Pentecostal in character. These include the older black Pentecostal churches that were established in Britain in the decade or so after the arrival in Britain in June of 1948 of the Empire Windrush, the first immigrant ship that transported 492 settlers from Jamaica. From the 1980s onwards, on both sides of the Atlantic, they also included African neo-Pentecostal churches, mostly of Nigerian or Ghanaian provenance. The rapid growth of West African neo-Pentecostal churches in European and American cities since the 1980s has been the subject of a host of recent sociological studies concerned to elucidate the leading role of these churches in the fashioning and sustaining of corporate identities within African migrant communities.
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