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Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Geography and Environmental Management, Faculty of Environment
University of Waterloo
Senanu Kwasi Kutor (he/him) is a Black and Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow and interdisciplinary scholar based in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo. He earned his PhD in Geography and Environment, with a specialization in Migration and Ethnic Relations, from the University of Western Ontario.
Senanu’s research centers on the intersections of climate change and human mobility, with a particular focus on climate change adaptation in the Global South, the impacts of climate change on livelihoods, and the gendered dimensions of the impacts of coastal flooding. As part of the Retreating from Risk project, his current work investigates the psycho-social effects of Managed Retreat (MR) as a response to coastal flooding in Ghana.
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- Kutor, S.K., Ofori, D.O., Akyea, T., & Arku, G. (2025). Climate change-immobility nexus: perspectives of voluntary immobile populations from three coastal communities in Ghana. Climatic Change 178 (14).
- Kutor, S.K., Bandauko, E., & Arku, G. (2023). Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept? Comparative Migration Studies 11 (9).
- Bandauko, E., Kutor, S.K., & Arku, G. (2023). To leave or not to leave? An analysis of individual and neighbourhood characteristics shaping place attachment in Harare's selected informal settlements. Canadian Geographies 66 (3).
- Bandauko, E., Kutor, S.K., & Nutifafa Arku, R. (2023). Trapped or not trapped? An empirical investigation into the lived experiences of the urban poor in Harare’s selected informal settlements. African Geographical Review 43 (5).
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Ofori, D.O., Bandauko, E., Kutor, S.K., Odoi, A., Asare, A.B., Akyea, T., & Arku, G. (2023). A systematic review of international and internal climate-induced migration in Africa. Sustainability 15 (22).
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Kyeremeh, E., Kutor, S.K., Annan-Aggrey, E., Yusuf, I., & Arku, G. (2023). The double return experience: rationale for return from Canada to Ghana and Ghana to Canada. Canadian Journal of African Studies 57 (2).
- Kutor, S.K., Bandauko, E., Kyeremeh, E., Annan-Aggrey, E., & Arku, G. (2022). Residential satisfaction in deprived urban neighbourhoods: a case study of Harare’s selected informal settlements. Journal of Housing and Built Environment 38.
- Kutor, S.K., Raileanu, A., & Simandan, D. (2022). Thinking geographically about how people become wiser: An analysis of the spatial dislocations and intercultural encounters of international migrants. Social Sciences and Humanities Open 6 (1).
- Kutor, S.K., Annan-Aggrey, E., Poku, A.A., Kyeremeh, E., & Arku, G. (2022). Assessing how rural-urban migration is incorporated in Ghana’s national urban policy: a qualitative content analysis. Local Environment 27 (12).
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Bandauko, E., Kutor, S.K., Annan-Aggrey, E., & Arku, G. (2022). ‘They say these are places for criminals, but this is our home’: internalising and countering discourses of territorial stigmatisation in Harare’s informal settlements. International Development Planning Review 44 (2).
- Kutor, S.K., Raileanu, A., & Simandan, D. (2021). International migration, cross-cultural interaction, and the development of personal wisdom. Migration Studies 9 (3).