‘I Wish, I Wish …’: Reflections on Mobility, Immobility and the Global ‘Imaginings’ of Nigerian Transnational Children

Veale, Angela; Andres, Camilla

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“…It provides the landscape for pure imaginative acts of worlds as-if (Veale & Andres, 2014). There is also the past-tense uses of such stems, such as the I-WAS stem, looking back to one's prior self in time and using it as a constructive bridge toward the constant future I-AMs.…”

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Overcoming the Binary Logic in Biculturalism

Murdock

2021

Culture as Process

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Overcoming the Binary Logic in Biculturalism

Murdock

2021

Culture as Process

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“…The material presented in this paper is based on multisited, multitemporal ethnographic fieldwork with eight Nigerian transnational families through interviews with the migrant parent in Ireland, their child and the child's caregiver in Nigeria exploring transnational child-raising. The eight families were participants in a survey of 309 Nigerian migrant parents in Ireland, purposively sampled so that half of parents had children in Nigeria and therefore were living in transnational families (Veale & Andres, 2014;White et al, 2019). All 154 survey respondents who were living in transnational families were invited to participate in the ethnographic study.…”

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The role of the imagination in transnational relating: The case of Nigerian children and their migrant parent in Ireland

Veale

Andres

2020

Culture & Psychology

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This paper explores the role of imagination in the lives of Nigerian transnational children and their migrant parent in Ireland. Migration of a parent is a rupture in a child’s life that triggers imaginary processes that are real in their developmental consequences. Following Zittoun and Gillespie, imagination is a process that generates a disjunction from the person’s experience of the “real” world, and uncouples and loops out before it eventually comes back to the actual experience. For the left-behind child, this imaginative loop remains “open” as parents return becomes extended in time. The dilemmas for the migrant parent and child are explored.

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“…There is a lack of studies focusing on the immobility experiences of Nigerians living within the country. Extant research has primarily focused on the experiences of those who have moved across Nigeria’s borders (Ahrens, 2013; Antwi Bosiakoh, 2019; Berriane, 2020; Gross-Wyrtzen, 2020; Haugen, 2012; Iranzo, 2021; Veale & Andres, 2014).…”

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Preserving the future through the past: Collective memory and immobility in adversity.

Olumba

2024

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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While prevailing research on migration predominantly concentrates on individuals fleeing adversities, this approach results in an underrepresentation of communities that exhibit a desire for immobility even in adversity. Thus, the decision of some community members to resist displacement and stay put in communities exposed to adversity, such as violent conflict-eco-violence, is underexplored; this article addresses this gap. In this article, grounded in the concept of collective memory, a reflexive thematic approach is used to analyze data collected in May 2022 from focus group participants in Benue and Nasarawa states in the North Central region of Nigeria. Among other things, the findings highlight the role of collective and materialized memories in shaping the attachments of community members to their ancestral land and their subsequent voluntary adoption of immobility. This article enriches the literature by presenting a perspective on how people's memories shape the dynamics that support their quest for immobility within their conflict-affected communities, in this case, in the Nigerian context. Public Significance StatementMost migration studies focus on internally displaced persons and refugees, often overlooking those who remain in the areas from which these individuals fled. This article focused on these overlooked persons who choose to remain in their communities despite facing adversities such as violent conflict. By exploring the experiences of community members who chose immobility in conflict-affected areas in the Nigerian Middle Belt, the article reveals how collective and materialized memories drive their decisions to stay put in their communities despite the violent conflicts. Understanding these dynamics enriches academic discussions on (im)mobility in adversity and underscores the importance of incorporating mechanisms that respect and promote their desires for immobility, thereby supporting them to actualize their life opportunities within their communities.

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‘I Wish, I Wish …’: Reflections on Mobility, Immobility and the Global ‘Imaginings’ of Nigerian Transnational Children

Cited by 6 publications

References 24 publications

Overcoming the Binary Logic in Biculturalism

Overcoming the Binary Logic in Biculturalism

The role of the imagination in transnational relating: The case of Nigerian children and their migrant parent in Ireland

Preserving the future through the past: Collective memory and immobility in adversity.

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