Current and ongoing Project 2025: The Political Lives of African Migrants: Perspectives from Africa (PolMig), Arnold Bergstraesser Institute Freiburg, Germany
2023-May 2025, Climate displacement and diversification: changing patterns of migration and peri-urban settlement, Max Planck Institute of Ethnic Diversity and Religious Study - Göttingen, Germany
2017-2018, Ghana in the Diaspora Project: Historic ties with the French Antilles project (Project founder) with funding from Embassy of France in Ghana, Institute Français du Ghana and Alliance Française D’Accra, Accra Ghana
2011-2014, Les Classes Moyenne en Afrique Project, SciencesPo Bordeaux, France
Associate Member: Les Afriques dans le Mond, SciencesPo Bordeaux, Bordeaux France
Guest Researcher: Max Planck Institute of Ethnic Diversity and Religious Study – Göttingen, Germany
Expert: United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation
Hamidu, J. (2015). Are Ghanaian Diaspora Middle Class? Linking Middle Class to Political Participation and Stability in Ghana. Africa Development, 40(1), 139–157.
Hamidu, J. (2014). Ghana: La stabilité politique. Une affaire de classe moyenne ou un partage du pouvoir par une élite de «professionals». In D. Darbon & C.-M. Toulabor (Eds.), L’invention des classes moyennes africaines: Enjeux politiques d’une catégorie incertaine, (pp. 185–214). Karthala.
Hamidu, J. (2019, November). Ghana in the Diasporas: Historic linkages between Ghana and the French Antilles [Scientific Blog Post]. Retrieved from Esquisses| Les Afriques dans le monde website: https://hal.science/hal-02531740