Surviving through movement: the mobility of urban youth in Ghana

Langevang, Thilde; Gough, Katherine V.

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“…I avoid this shortcoming by bringing the subjectivities of African migrants to the fore. By doing so, I draw attention to the increasingly spatial nature of approaches used by young West Africans to overcome the uncertainty and constraints on life ambitions facing them in Africa (see also Ferguson 2006;Langevang and Gough 2009), and how this connects to the issue of football trafficking. This also enables me to further debates over migrant agency, particularly research problematising perceptions of migrants as objects or victims of migration regimes (see Anderson, Sharma, and Wright 2009;Sharma 2003).…”

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Better Off at Home? Rethinking Responses to Trafficked West African Footballers in Europe

Esson

2014

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Better Off at Home? Rethinking Responses to Trafficked West African Footballers in Europe

Esson

2014

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Whereas Langevang and Gough (2009) found that sitting at home implied laziness and consumption for the youth in their study, the opposite was true for younger children in George. The children I knew suggested that moving around too much during the day could be a sign of laziness and consumption.…”

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Children As Caregivers : The Global Fight Against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia

Hunleth¹

2017

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The Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies is dedicated to increasing our understanding of children and childhoods throughout the world, reflecting a perspective that highlights cultural dimensions of the human experience. The books in this series are intended for students, scholars, practitioners, and those who formulate policies that affect children's everyday lives and futures. A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library.Copyright © 2017 by Jean Hunleth All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 106 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. The only exception to this prohibition is "fair use" as defined by U.S. copyright law.∞ The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39. 48-1992. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org Contents ixChildren as Caregivers is based on research I carried out in Lusaka during a time that spanned nearly ten years (2005, 2006, 2007 to 2008, and 2014). However, the ideas for the research took root much earlier when I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Eastern Province and then Central Province, Zambia (1999Zambia ( -2002. As a water sanitation volunteer in the village of Kapichila, near Lundazi, I was able to witness many things children accomplished for their families, and also the unacknowledged work that children put into global health projects. I thank Maxwell Banda and Anya Gondwe for opening their home to me and for putting their grandchildren in charge of introducing me to village life. Tikali, Regina, Suzgo, and Mattress taught me many lessons about children's creativity and the diversity of childhood experiences. I continue to carry these lessons throughout my career.I have incurred many debts since starting the project that led to this book. I am beyond grateful for my longtime mentor, Karen Tranberg Hansen, whose deep knowledge of Africanist scholarship and her decades of research in Lusaka provided the foundation for my own work. Helen Schwartzman introduced me to the anthropology of childhood and pushed me to think creatively and critically about research with children. I thank both Karen and Helen for their unwavering support and the countless hours they have spent mentoring me through the years. I have benefited from the mentorship of so many other people, particularly Edward Fischer, Bill Leonard, Rebecca Wurtz, Caroline Bledsoe, Virginia Bond, Cathy Zimmerman, Brad Stoner, and Aimee James, who have all encouraged me, in different ways, to weave together my interests in anthropology and public health.I have many people to thank in Zambia. My research affiliation with the Zambia AIDS Related Tuberculosis project (ZAMBART) proved vital, both when I was in Zambia and also back in the ...

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“…This form of conduct is termed 'social navigation', a type of youthful agency that entails attempting to make calculated decisions and behaving in a judicious manner despite often lacking the privilege of being able to base these calculations on discrete and stable variables (Langevang and Gough, 2009) use the notion of 'trying your luck' to turn our attention towards the strategies young people use as they attempt to migrate through football.…”

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You have to try your luck: male Ghanaian youth and the uncertainty of football migration

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2015

Environ Plan A

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The migration of male African youth within the football industry, particularly cases involving human trafficking, has become a subject of academic and political interest. This article contributes to work on this topic and to literature on the agency of youth in the urban Global South by turning the academic gaze away from European actors and settings, and towards their African counterparts.Drawing upon research conducted in Ghana, the article reveals how youth perceive migration through football as a solution to the socio--economic uncertainty and life constraints facing them in neoliberal Accra. This perception is tied to broader representations of spatial mobility as a precursor for social mobility. Youth attempt to achieve spatial mobility through football by 'trying their luck', a form of social navigation that is used to mediate the uncertainty associated with this strategy for realizing spatial change. Through illustrating why youth want to be spatially mobile and how they attempt to do so through football, this article demonstrates why studies of African football migration need to engage better with how conditions inside the football industry interact with those beyond it.

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Surviving through movement: the mobility of urban youth in Ghana

Cited by 134 publications

References 32 publications

Better Off at Home? Rethinking Responses to Trafficked West African Footballers in Europe

Better Off at Home? Rethinking Responses to Trafficked West African Footballers in Europe

Children As Caregivers : The Global Fight Against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia

You have to try your luck: male Ghanaian youth and the uncertainty of football migration

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