¿Educación o desintegración? Parental Migration, Remittances and Left-behind Children's Education in Western Guatemala

Davis, Jason

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“…Other relevant considerations include the evacuation rate, risk perception, death rate, and probability of remaining home. Regarding fairness, the spatial distribution and correlation of risk, wealth, and natural resources (a water body could provide resources but could also increase the flood risk) are important aspects that should be explored [ 65 , 66 ]. We should also assess how different strategies affect the interactions between resource mobilization and loss of life/property.…”

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Efficiency-fairness trade-offs in evacuation management of urban floods: The effects of the shelter capacity and zone prioritization

Muneepeerakul

2021

PLoS ONE

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With increasing flood risk, evacuation has become an important research topic in urban flood management. Urban flood evacuation is a complex problem due to i) the complex interactions among several components within a city and ii) the need to consider multiple, often competing, dimensions/objectives in evacuation analysis. In this study, we focused on the interplay between two such objectives: efficiency and fairness. We captured the evacuation process in a conceptual agent-based model (ABM), which was analyzed under different hard infrastructure and institutional arrangement conditions, namely, various shelter capacity distributions as a hard infrastructure property and simultaneous/staged evacuation as an institutional arrangement. Efficiency was measured as the time it takes for a person to evacuate to safety. Fairness was defined by how equally residents suffered from floods, and the level of suffering depended on the perceived risk and evacuation time. Our findings suggested that efficiency is more sensitive to the shelter capacity distribution, while fairness changes more notably according to the evacuation priority assigned to the divided zones in staged evacuation. Simultaneous evacuation generally tended to be more efficient but unfairer than staged evacuation. The efficiency-fairness trade-off was captured by Pareto-optimal strategies, among which uniform capacity cases led to a higher efficiency while prioritizing high-risk residents increases fairness. Strategies balancing efficiency and fairness featured a uniform capacity and prioritized high-risk residents at an intermediate time delay. These findings more clearly exposed the interactions between different factors and could be adopted as benchmarks to inform more complicated evacuation ABMs.

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Efficiency-fairness trade-offs in evacuation management of urban floods: The effects of the shelter capacity and zone prioritization

Muneepeerakul

2021

PLoS ONE

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“…The findings from the current study add to the growing migration-related literature by highlighting the effects of family separation on mothers. The effects of temporary and enduring separations have profound and varied effects on parents, children, and caregivers [ 8 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 37 ]. What may be considered a temporary separation from children may become lengthy or even permanent, and women may be unprepared for the length of separation and the toll it takes on parent–child relationships [ 10 ].…”

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“…Parents’ migration can positively affect their children’s economic well-being [ 11 ]. However, negative outcomes associated with migration-related separation include academic decline, ‘acting out’ behaviors, and poor self-esteem among children; and sadness, guilt, and loneliness among parents and caregivers [ 11 , 13 , 14 , 15 ]. Separation can also be associated with increased depression, anxiety, substance use, economic instability, and ambiguous loss for both children and parents [ 16 ].…”

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“Mi Corazón se Partió en Dos”: Transnational Motherhood at the Intersection of Migration and Violence

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Hernandez

2022

IJERPH

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In the recent Central American migrations spurred by violence, political instability, and economic insecurity, women grapple with whether and when to bring their children with them in pursuit of safety in another country, and with fulfilling their roles as mothers from afar. Drawing from the transnational motherhood literature and critical feminist theories, this interpretive qualitative study examined transnational motherhood grounded in the lived experiences of Central American women (n = 19) over the course of their migrations to the US. Informed by the principles of grounded theory, the inductive analysis identified five processes in which migration and violence shaped meanings of motherhood: risking everything, embodying separation, braving reunification, mothering others, and experiencing motherhood due to sexual violence. The findings contribute knowledge of how violence shapes and informs women’s migrations and decision-making, and the consequences women endure in taking action to mitigate threats of violence in their own and their children’s lives. The analysis furthermore highlights the specific and profound effects of family separation on mothers. The voices, perspectives, and experiences of migrating mothers and the ways in which migration and violence shapes notions and lived experiences of motherhood are imperative to research, practice, and advocacy to change oppressive immigration policies.

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“…Like in Ethiopia, a significant reason young people in Guatemala drop out of school is because of the perceived diminishing returns of education relative to transnational migration (Adelman & Székely, 2017). However, young people with migrating family members often have more financial support for education, which in turn can also enable higher educational attainment (Davis, 2016). For other young people, physical mobility brings into question the purpose and usefulness of formal education.…”

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Contesting educational imaginaries at the intersection of migration and transnational development in Guatemala

Nichols

2023

Anthropology & Edu Quarterly

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Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic engagement in Guatemala with Indigenous youth, local community organizations, and transnational nongovernmental organizations, this article examines how young people imagine and work toward alternative futures at the intersection of extensive migration and a developmentalist push for educational attainment. I show how, within the development infrastructures generated by migration, contrasting futures are rendered, with concerns over education being a key site for this imaginative and future‐oriented work.

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¿Educación o desintegración? Parental Migration, Remittances and Left-behind Children's Education in Western Guatemala

Cited by 8 publications

References 39 publications

Efficiency-fairness trade-offs in evacuation management of urban floods: The effects of the shelter capacity and zone prioritization

Efficiency-fairness trade-offs in evacuation management of urban floods: The effects of the shelter capacity and zone prioritization

“Mi Corazón se Partió en Dos”: Transnational Motherhood at the Intersection of Migration and Violence

Contesting educational imaginaries at the intersection of migration and transnational development in Guatemala

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