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Lothar Smith

Lothar SmithLothar Smith (1973) obtained a Master’s degree in Rural Development Sociology from Wageningen Agricultural University in 1998 based on two theses. The first was on the need for a land reforms program in the former homelands of South Africa and the second on economic and ecological viability of agricultural practices in a frontier zone of Nicaragua. Since then he worked as sociologist with the Agricultural and Rural Development Research Institute (ARDRI) of the University of Fort Hare, South Africa and as coordinator with Rural Wageningen (RUW), a small foundation that seeks to encourage students to look critically at rural and agricultural developments in The Netherlands and Europe. He joined the Ghana TransNet research program in February 2002. His dissertation research seeks to understand how Accra-based members of a transnational network are influenced in their economic activities by their link to a migrant in The Netherlands. He conducted fieldwork from May 2003 to August 2004 with people who are part of the networks of Ghanaian migrants living in The Netherlands. These people have widely differing relationships with the migrant in The Netherlands ranging from family members to business colleagues to fellow hometown or church members. He is presently writing his dissertation.

Supervisors: Prof. T. Dietz, Prof. J.W. Gunnning, Dr. V. Mazzucato, Dr. R. van Dijk

E-mail: l.smith@uva.nl

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Last update: January 31, 2006
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Last update: January 31, 2006
Copyright © 2004 Valentina Mazzucato, unless otherwise stated. All rights reserved. Disclaimer.