12 results on '"Mazzucato, Valentina"'
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2. Transnational families living between Africa and Europe
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Mazzucato, Valentina, Schans, Djamila, Caarls, Kim, and Beauchemin, Cris
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AFRICA ,EUROPE ,FAMILY_LIFE ,TRANSNATIONALISM - Abstract
International migration and family life are frequently difficult to reconcile. Valentina Mazzucato, Djamila Schans, Kim Caarls, and Cris Beauchemin focus on three cases (the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, and Senegal) and show how varied the solutions can be, with some families reunifying in the destination country, others back in the country of origin, and still others not reunifying at all but becoming instead “transnational families.” This article was also published on the INED website in English and in French.
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- 2020
3. Multiple precarity and intimate family life among African-Chinese families in Guangzhou.
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Jordan, Lucy, Hoang, Andrew Pau, Chui, Cheryl H. K., Wang, Wei, and Mazzucato, Valentina
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PRECARITY ,FAMILIES ,AFRICANS ,AFRICAN migrations ,EMIGRATION & immigration in China ,INTERPERSONAL relations ,SOCIAL belonging ,SELF-efficacy - Abstract
Formal ties between China and several African states have intensified in recent years. Alongside growing economic and trade cooperation, the international mobility of people between China and African states is increasing. Recent studies have shown that African migrants face institutional barriers to integration in Chinese society, however, and the personal and social consequences of these barriers remain under-researched, especially the dynamics of intimate family life. Drawing upon concepts of precarity and 'low-end globalisation', this study examines how African-Chinese families navigate everyday life, including work, family and children's education. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork comprising observations and in-depth interviews with African-Chinese families and one community leader (n = 19). These reveal how families confront the pervasiveness of legal, economic and social precarization in multiple overlapping domains. These social forces have intergenerational repercussions, with adverse impacts on family life, interpersonal relationships and sense of belonging to the local community. Yet precarity offers conditions for practices of empowerment. We conclude with implications for migration studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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4. Migrant Families between Africa and Europe: Comparing Ghanaian, Congolese and Senegalese Migration Flows
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Mazzucato, Valentina, Schans, D., Caarls, Kim, Beauchemin, C., RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASoS GTD, and Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)
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media_common.quotation_subject ,Extended family ,Ghana ,Democracy ,Europe ,Congo ,Political science ,migrant families ,Africa ,Demographic economics ,Remittance ,Family reunification ,Educational systems ,media_common - Abstract
This chapter provides a descriptive and comparative analysis of transnational families with members located in africa and europe. By comparing both countries of origin and destination, differences in family arrangements are found among ghana, senegal and the democratic republic of congo as well as within these groups depending on the european destination countries. Findings show that families in origin countries and migrants overseas maintain active relationships through remittance sending and receiving, contact via telephone and visits. This involves nuclear as well as extended family members. Transnational family forms are most commonly associated with dates of arrival and legal status of migrants overseas. Furthermore, family and gender norms at origin, migration motivations, destination country family reunification and migration policies, and destination country characteristics related to language, employment opportunities and educational system help to explain the differences found in the prevalence of transnational families in the different countries studied.keywordssenegalese migrantstransnational family lifefamily reunification policiesghanaian migrantscongolese migrantsthese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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- 2018
5. Theorising Chance: Capturing the Role of Ad Hoc Social Interactions in Migrants' Trajectories
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Gladkova, Nataliia, Mazzucato, Valentina, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASoS GTD, and RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE
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CULTURE ,TRANSIT MIGRATION ,EUROPE ,chance ,Africa ,BIOGRAPHICAL APPROACH ,trajectories ,DETERMINANTS ,LIFE PATHS ,NETWORKS - Abstract
When collecting migrants' life stories, researchers often report on the role of chance encounters in influencing the way migration trajectories have taken shape or how migrants have managed their lives in a new country. Aside from reporting on such encounters, however, there have been no explicit efforts to theorise chance or to make it central to in-depth analysis in migration studies. This paper aims to theorise the role of chance encounters in migrants' trajectories by drawing on insights from the psychology literature of chance encounters and life paths. Our analysis of the role of chance encounters, structured by the interplay between environmental and personal factors, suggests that how people deal with chance is an influential factor in the ways people migrate from the Global South to the Global North and manage their lives in transit. The paper makes use of evidence collected among 46 African migrants in Ukraine during 7 months of field research in 2011-2012 and reflects on the methodological implications in studying chance. Copyright (C) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- 2017
6. Transnational Child Raising Arrangements and the Well-Being of Angolan Migrant Parents in Europe
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Vivet, Jeanne, Mazzucato, Valentina, Cebotari, Victor, Veale, Angela, White, Allen, Grassi, Marzia, Les Afriques dans le monde (LAM), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne-Institut d'Études Politiques [IEP] - Bordeaux-Sciences Po Bordeaux - Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux (IEP Bordeaux)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Miraucourt, Bastien
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International migration ,[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology ,[SHS.SOCIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology ,[SHS.GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography ,Nigeria ,Migration internationale ,[SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography ,Ghana ,[SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science ,Afrique ,Angola ,Africa ,Famille ,Family ,[SHS.SCIPO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science - Abstract
Session 1: Children (Chair: Takyiwaa Manuh) http://fasos-research.nl/tcra/files/2013/05/MJK_Draft-VM-Program_March-28-29-2013-21-2-2.pdf
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- 2013
7. Gendered Perceptions of Migration Among Ghanaian Children in Transnational Care.
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Cebotari, Victor, Mazzucato, Valentina, and Siegel, Melissa
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This study empirically measures the perceptions towards maternal and paternal migration of male and female children who stay behind in Ghana. It analyses survey data collected in 2010 among secondary school children aged 11-18 in four urban areas with high out-migration rates: the greater Accra region, Kumasi, Sunyani and Cape Coast ( N = 1965). The results show significant gendered differences in how children perceive parental migration. Specifically, female children have more positive views towards maternal and paternal migration when parents are abroad and in a stable marital relationship, when the assessed parent is abroad but the other parent is the caregiver in Ghana, when there is a frequent change in the care arrangement, and when female children receive remittances. These findings were not replicated for male children. The analysis highlights the sensitivity of the results to the gender of the child and to the characteristics of children's transnational lives that are being analysed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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8. Psychological Well-being of Ghanaian Children in Transnational Families.
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Mazzucato, Valentina and Cebotari, Victor
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CHILDREN of immigrants ,SECONDARY school students ,CHILD care ,FAMILIES ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
This study is one of the first large-scale analyses on child psychological well-being in the context of parental migration when children remain in an African country. As such, it contributes to the literature by investigating some of the insights gained from in-depth transnational family studies, and it also provides evidence from Africa where normative contexts around family life differ from Latin America, Southeast Asia, and East Asia where most studies have been conducted to date. A survey was conducted in 2010/2011 with 2,760 secondary school children and youths in high out-migration areas of Ghana. Using multiple regression analysis, we find that being in a transnational family is associated with lower levels of psychological well-being, yet only in families where parents are divorced or separated. Furthermore, when parents are in a relationship, specific characteristics of transnational family arrangements are associated with lower levels of child psychological well-being, while others are not. In particular, whether a parent migrates internally or internationally, who the caregiver is, and having a good relationship with the migrant parent are not associated with poorer well-being outcomes. Instead, if a father migrates, if the child changes caregivers more than once, and if the child has a bad relationship with his or her migrant father are associated with lower levels of well-being. This study adds nuance to a field of research that has emphasised negative outcomes and helps identify policy areas to improve the well-being of children in transnational families. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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9. Educational performance of children of migrant parents in Ghana, Nigeria and Angola.
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Cebotari, Victor and Mazzucato, Valentina
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IMMIGRANT children , *ACADEMIC achievement , *FAMILIES , *SCHOOL children , *ELEMENTARY education , *EDUCATION - Abstract
There is no empirical research on the school performance of children who live separated from their parents in sub-Saharan Africa—a major migrant sending region in the world. This study uses survey data from junior and secondary school children and youths in Ghana (N = 2760), Angola (N = 2243) and Nigeria (N = 2168) to examine how different transnational family formations such as internal or international parental absence accompanied by migration or divorce, who is the migrant parent and who is the caregiver, the stability of the caregiving arrangement and remittances relate with the school performance of children who stay behind. School performance is measured through an index of grades in language, mathematics and science. The results show that international parental migration (Ghana), the internal parental migration accompanied by divorce/separation (Nigeria) and migration of both parents (Ghana and Nigeria) are likely predictors for decreased school performance. No effects are observed when parents are abroad and divorced/separated, when only one parent migrates, when children are in a stable care arrangement or when children receive remittances or not. The analyses show that the overall relationship between parental absence and education varies by the transnational dimension being analysed and by context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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10. Informal Insurance Arrangements in Ghanaian Migrants’ Transnational Networks: The Role of Reverse Remittances and Geographic Proximity
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Mazzucato, Valentina
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IMMIGRANTS , *PERSONS , *NONCITIZENS , *ACCULTURATION - Abstract
Summary: Risk pooling literature argues the need for geographic proximity to ensure the functioning of informal insurance arrangements. This paper investigates whether these arrangements exist between migrants and their network members back home and, if so, how they work in the absence of geographic proximity. Analysis of a simultaneous matched sample of migrants in the Netherlands and network members in Ghana reveals the existence of reverse remittances. These remittances show that there is risk pooling between migrants and network members. The paper elaborates on the institutional arrangements that make such a system possible. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2009
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11. Africa < > Europe: A Double Engagement.
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Grillo, Ralph and Mazzucato, Valentina
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TRANSNATIONALISM , *AFRICAN migrations , *ECONOMIC impact of emigration & immigration , *EMIGRATION & immigration - Abstract
This introduction to the special issue entitled ‘Africa<>Europe: Transnational Linkages, Multi-Sited Lives’ outlines the history of the African migrant presence in Europe, gives an account of the contexts which shape contemporary migration, and surveys the approaches to international migration from Africa which have influenced researchers since the 1960s. Linking the contributions to the special issue is the theme of migrants’ transnational ‘double engagement’ with both Africa and Europe. The paper examines this theme across three domains of the lived experience of African migrants and refugees in Europe: ‘Livelihoods’, ‘Families’, and ‘Identities’. We conclude with an assessment of what can be learned (theoretically and methodologically) from the study of African transmigration, and suggest future lines of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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12. Moving beyond indigenous soil taxonomies: local theories of soils for sustainable development
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Niemeijer, David and Mazzucato, Valentina
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SOIL classification , *FARMERS - Abstract
It is now widely recognized that local farmers possess an important body of knowledge concerning soils and their use for agriculture. This article argues that in order for that knowledge to be useful for sustainable development interventions, it is necessary to go beyond the collection of indigenous soil taxonomies and also explore the theories farmers have on soil formation and degradation processes. Based on field research in eastern Burkina Faso, the article demonstrates that farmers'' theories of soil go beyond practical rules of thumb and include complex concepts about soil processes and fertility. In this sense they are similar to scientific theories of soil. It is argued that understanding the similarities and differences in soil related concepts, such as that of soil fertility, could do much more to improve communication between farmers, researchers and development workers than only comparing taxonomies. Furthermore, capturing the grammar (theories) rather than the sentences (taxonomies) provides a much clearer insight to how farmers will deal with changing circumstances and new crops than the static way in which local taxonomies are often treated. Finally, local soil theories are a better point of departure in terms of creating the necessary comprehension of farmer practices required for effective collaboration towards sustainable development. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2003
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