Immigration to Ghana

A skilled worker is any worker who has special skill, training, knowledge, and (usually acquired) ability in their work. A skilled worker may have attended a college, university or technical school. Or, a skilled worker may have learned their skills on the job. Examples of skilled labor include engineers, software development, paramedics, police officers, soldiers, physicians, crane operators, truck drivers, machinist, drafters, plumbers, craftsmen, cooks and accountants. These workers can be either blue-collar or white-collar workers, with varied levels of training or education. Ghana has a skilled worker immigration policy aimed at creating a highly skilled and knowledgeable Ghanaian population, capable of creating wealth for Ghana and rapidly increasing the Ghanaian economy GDP output;{{cite web|url=http://www.totallyexpat.com/global-immigration-news/Ghana-government-introduces-stricter-entry-rules-work-permit-applicants-recruitment-requirements-oil-gas-industry/|title=Ghana: Government Introduces Stricter Entry Rules for Work Permit Applicants, New Recruitment Requirements for Oil and Gas Industry|website=totallyexpat.com|access-date=13 June 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928093206/http://totallyexpat.com/global-immigration-news/ghana-government-introduces-stricter-entry-rules-work-permit-applicants-recruitment-requirements-oil-gas-industry/|archive-date=28 September 2013}} and has recruited highly skilled professional experts in the fields of information and communications technology, manufacturing, health care, construction, finance and banking, retailing and the oil and gas industry sectors of the Ghanaian economy.

Skilled worker immigrants in Ghana include Indian, South Korean, Japanese, Malaysian, Cuban, Lebanese, Chinese, German and Dutch nationals and however after seven years as Ghanaian permanent residents with the Ghana Card permanent residency; skilled workers have gone on to become Ghanaian nationals.{{cite web|url=http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/foreign_affairs/foreigners.php|title=Foreigners in Ghana|last=|first=|publisher=Ghanaweb.com|date=|access-date=13 June 2013|archive-date=3 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703175452/http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/foreign_affairs/foreigners.php|url-status=live}} Since 2012, Ghana has also had its highly professional skilled worker expatriates returning from the diaspora back to Ghana.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/19/Ghana-expatriates-return-home-economy|title=Ghana expatriates return home to seize opportunities from booming economy|author=Afua Hirsch|author-link=Afua Hirsch|work=guardian.co.uk|publisher=The Guardian|access-date=13 June 2013|location=London|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314050806/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/19/ghana-expatriates-return-home-economy|archive-date=March 14, 2013}}

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Lydia Frances Polgreen (born 1975) is a journalist, who is the editor-in-chief of HuffPost. She was previously the editorial director of NYT Global at The New York Times, and the West Africa bureau chief for the same publication, based in Dakar, Senegal, from 2005–2009. She won many awards, most recently the Livingston award in 2009.{{cite web| url=http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/p/lydia_polgreen/index.html?inline=nyt-per.| title=Lydia Polgreen| work=The New York Times| access-date=18 April 2010| archive-date=26 March 2023| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326143527/https://www.nytimes.com/by/lydia-polgreen?inline=nyt-per.| url-status=live}} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/893970199 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/889735761 cite #1 – verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC bot/Job 18}} She also reported from India.{{cite news| url=http://www.observer.com/2008/media/times-beijing-bureau-chief-takes-india| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081023030239/http://www.observer.com/2008/media/times-beijing-bureau-chief-takes-india| url-status=dead| archive-date=October 23, 2008| title=Times' Beijing Bureau Chief Takes On India| author= John Koblin| work=The New York Observer| date=October 21, 2008 | access-date=August 26, 2010 }} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/893970199 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/889735761 cite #2 – verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC bot/Job 18}}{{cite web|url=https://billionaires.forbes.com/photo/03USd2o5kpcmX |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125020435/http://billionaires.forbes.com/photo/03USd2o5kpcmX |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 25, 2010 |title=Photo from AP Photo |publisher=Billionaires.forbes.com |date=2010-07-09 |access-date=2010-08-27}} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/893970199 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/889735761 cite #3 – verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC bot/Job 18}} She was then based in Johannesburg, South Africa where she was The New York Times Johannesburg Bureau Chief. As reported by the journalist Lydia Polgreen in a New York Times article, the fact that Ghanaian slave exports to the Americas were so important between the 16th and 19th centuries means that Ghana currently is trying to attract African slave descendants from the Americas in order that they settle there, and so that they return to make the country the new home to many descendants of the Ghanaian diaspora – though not all are of Ghanaian descent. Accordingly, as reported by Valerie Papaya Mann, president of the African American Association of Ghana, thousands of African Americans are already now living in Ghana, at least for part of the year. To encourage migration or visits by the descendants of enslaved Africans from the Americas, Ghana decided in 2005 to offer them a special visa and grant them Ghanaian passports.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/27/international/africa/27ghana.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all|title=Ghana's Uneasy Embrace of Slavery's Diaspora|newspaper=The New York Times|author=Polgreen, Lydia|author-link=Lydia Polgreen|date=December 27, 2005|access-date=August 28, 2012|archive-date=May 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524080742/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/27/international/africa/27ghana.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all|url-status=live}}

The history of African Americans in Ghana goes back to individuals such as American civil rights activist and writer W. E. B. Du Bois, who settled in Ghana in the last years of his life and is buried in the capital Accra. Since then, other African Americans who are descended from slaves imported from areas within the present-day jurisdiction of Ghana and neighboring states have applied for permanent resident status in Ghana. As of 2015, the number of African-American residents has been estimated at around 3,000 people, a large portion of whom live in Accra.

According to the Ghana Statistics Service 375,000 of the Ghana resident population were born outside Ghana, representing 2.5% of the total Ghana resident population. In 2010 Census, European-born population was 14,295 in which some of them could be children of Ghanaians living in Europe.{{cite web|url=http://www.statsghana.gov.gh/docfiles/2010phc/Census2010_Summary_report_of_final_results.pdf|title=Ghana – 2010 Population and Housing Census|work=Ghana Statistics Service|year=2010|publisher=Government of Ghana|access-date=13 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925192147/http://www.statsghana.gov.gh/docfiles/2010phc/Census2010_Summary_report_of_final_results.pdf|archive-date=25 September 2013|url-status=dead}}

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