Transnational Mothers and the Law: Ghanaian Women’s Pathways to Family Reunion and Consequences for Family Life

Poeze, Miranda; Mazzucato, Valentina

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-52099-9_9

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“…High‐income requirements for family reunification in many of the European countries studied are difficult for single parents to meet when employed in low‐paying sectors (Beauchemin et al, ; Caarls & Mazzucato, ; Eremenko & González‐Ferrer, ; Kraler, ). Being single also makes it difficult to raise children while working full time, so women have been found to leave children at origin in the care of their own mothers or sisters as a preferred solution (Åkesson et al, ; Banfi & Boccagni, ; Parreñas, ; Poeze & Mazzucato, ). On the contrary, transnational fathers mostly have their child's mother living with the child at origin, which is in line with previous studies stating that mothers take care of the children if the father migrates.…”

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African transnational families: Cross‐country and gendered comparisons

Haagsman

Kraus

Mazzucato

2018

Population Space and Place

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Studies indicated differences between transnational family life for migrant mothers andfathers and that the effects on their "left-behind" children differ according to who migrates. Yet little is known about why these differences exist. This paper aims to fill this gap by comparing transnational and nontransnational African families with parents living in Europe to understand their different family structures. We analyse three datasets with information on migrants from five African origin countries in eight European countries.Our analyses reveal important differences between transnational and nontransnational families and between transnational mothers and fathers. Transnational mothers are more often single, have children from multiple relationships, and start family life earlier than transnational fathers and nontransnational parents. This corresponds closely to what family sociologists have found make "fragile families" among nonmigrants. Our work thus indicates that policies aiming to improve migrants' lives need to consider the disadvantages that particularly migrant women experience in maintaining their family life.

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African transnational families: Cross‐country and gendered comparisons

Haagsman

Kraus

Mazzucato

2018

Population Space and Place

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“…Therefore, parents should preferably not expose their children to (further) mobility. This reasoning places the responsibility of the timing of mobility on the parents, while previous studies show that the Dutch law on reunification, which only applies to children under 18, forces parents to withdraw their children from their schools at very unfavourable moments (Poeze & Mazzucato, 2016).…”

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Conflicting framings: Young Ghanaians’ and Dutch education professionals’ views on the impact of mobility on education

Geel

2019

Critical Studies in Education

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This paper investigates how Dutch education professionals andGhanaian migrant youth frame the impact of young people's geographical mobility on education. The paper is based on a discourse analysis of policy documentation, semi-structured interviews with education professionals and 20 months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork with 30 young Ghanaians (ages 16-25). The analyses show that the relationship between mobility and education has historically been problematized in the Netherlands, now permeating negative framings of mobility adopted by Dutch education professionals. Young Ghanaians, however, envision their mobility and education as positively intertwined. The comparison shows that education professionals and young Ghanaians employ frames that conflict because they draw on distinctly different notions of 'education' and because dominant framings produce uncompromising narratives, realities, and eventually policies. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Although globalization is often heralded as easing long-distance communication and travel, this improvement does not apply equally to all migrants. Especially for poorer and undocumented migrants, maintaining familial relationships over long distances may be problematic (Poeze and Mazzucato 2016). Considering these characteristics of Ghanaian migration, the Ghanaian case may provide new insights into the factors that affect reunification or separation of couples across borders.…”

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confidence: 99%