188 results on '"Mazzucato, Valentina"'
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152. Population Growth and the Environment in Africa: Local Informal Institutions, the Missing Link*
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Mazzucato, Valentina, primary and Niemeijer, David, additional
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- 2009
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153. Remittances in Ghana: Origin, Destination and Issues of Measurement
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Mazzucato, Valentina, primary, Van Den Boom, Bart, additional, and Nsowah‐Nuamah, N.N.N., additional
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- 2008
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154. Africa < > Europe: A Double Engagement
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Grillo, Ralph, primary and Mazzucato, Valentina, additional
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- 2008
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155. Non-research policy effects on the rate of return to maize research in Kenya, 1955-1988
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Mazzucato, Valentina
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- 1991
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156. Transnational Migration and the Economy of Funerals: Changing Practices in Ghana
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Mazzucato, Valentina, primary, Kabki, Mirjam, additional, and Smith, Lothar, additional
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- 2006
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157. ‘Wo benanε aεyε bebree’: the economic impact of remittances of Netherlands-based Ghanaian migrants on rural Ashanti
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Kabki, Mirjam, primary, Mazzucato, Valentina, additional, and Appiah, Ernest, additional
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- 2004
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158. Why do savings institutions differ within the same region? The role of environment and social capital in the creation of savings arrangements in Eastern Burkina Faso
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Mazzucato, Valentina, primary and Niemeijer, David, additional
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- 2003
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159. Commentary: Discrepancies about Soil Degradation
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Koohafkan, Parviz, primary, Niemeijer, David, additional, and Mazzucato, Valentina, additional
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- 2002
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160. The Cultural Economy of Soil and Water Conservation: Market Principles and Social Networks in Eastern Burkina Faso
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Mazzucato, Valentina, primary and Niemeijer, David, additional
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- 2000
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161. Reverse remittances in the migration-development nexus: two-way flows between Ghana and the Netherlands.
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Mazzucato, Valentina
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REMITTANCES ,CHILD care ,QUALITATIVE research ,TRANSNATIONALISM ,DEVELOPING countries ,EDUCATION - Abstract
Scholarship on the migration-development nexus has focused on the outcomes of remittances received by the inhabitants of countries in the Global South. This paper argues that this conceptualisation of remittances as one-way flows obscures the fact that remittances are part of reciprocal social relations. As such, they also entail flows of goods, money, and especially services from countries in the Global South to migrants, or what is called reverse remittances. The paper contributes to emerging literature on reverse remittances by broadening the conceptualisation of reverse remittances and presenting an analysis of their characteristics as well as those of receivers and providers. We find that most remittances from home communities to migrants are in the form of services rendered. These include childcare and helping with migrants' investments in housing and business. Furthermore, we elaborate on another type of reverse remittance overlooked in the literature: services conducted to help migrants obtain documents to regularise their stays in the host country. The type of reverse remittance received differs for documented and undocumented migrants, and the providers differ according to kin and non-kin relations. Depending on their significance, reverse remittances can be important in determining whether and how migration can lead to a betterment of people's lives in the Global South and are therefore relevant for the migration-development nexus, which has heretofore neglected their existence. The analysis is based on a simultaneous matched sample methodology conducted with 131 migrants in the Netherlands and their network members in Ghana, using both quantitative and qualitative analyses. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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162. Discrepancies about Soil Degradation.
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Koohafkan, Parviz, Niemeijer, David, and Mazzucato, Valentina
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SOIL degradation ,DEFORESTATION ,METHODOLOGY - Abstract
Comments on a report in the March 2002 issue of 'Environment' from David Niemeijer and Valentina Mazzucato about their findings on soil degradation in the Sahel region of West Africa. Discussion of discrepancies highlighted by the authors between their results and earlier work based on modeling and limited field data; Topics of arable land, soil fertility, nutrient losses, and deforestation; Response of the authors to criticism of their methodology.
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- 2002
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163. Transnational migration, health and well-being: Nigerian parents in Ireland and the Netherlands
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White, Allen, Dito, Bilisuma B., Veale, Angela, and Mazzucato, Valentina
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The phenomenon of families separated across continents is a result of migratory flows in a globalised world. Transnational families occur because one or both parents migrate internationally requiring children to be raised in transnational child-raising arrangements, with the help of caregivers. This study examines the health and the emotional well-being of Nigerian migrant parents living in Ireland and the Netherlands, using comparative analyses based on a survey of close to 300 migrant parents in each host country. Half of the sample in each country is living in transnational families the other half are not. This paper adds to the existing literature on transnational families by including control groups (migrants who are not separated from their children) and comparing migrant parents from the same origin country who live in different host countries, allowing us to identify the significance of migratory context and legal regimes in shaping the emotional well-being and health of parents.
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- 2019
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164. Mapping Transnational Networks of Care from a Multi-actor and Multi-sited Perspective
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Mazzucato, Valentina, Dankyi, Ernestina, Poeze, Miranda, Bolzman, Claudio, Bernardi, Laura, LeGoff, Jean-Marie, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASoS GTD, and RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE
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Economic growth ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Perspective (graphical) ,1. No poverty ,Developing country ,Public relations ,Raising (linguistics) ,0506 political science ,Migration studies ,050902 family studies ,Political science ,Perception ,Ethnography ,050602 political science & public administration ,0509 other social sciences ,10. No inequality ,business ,Developed country ,Nuclear family ,media_common - Abstract
Increases in migration from developing countries to industrialized nations results in family members living in different countries, having to arrange care for young and elderly at a distance. A common form that these transnational families take is when a parent migrates, leaving his or her children in the care of someone in the home country. This results in transnational child raising arrangements (tcras) composed of migrant parents and their children and caregivers in the countries of origin. Transnational migration studies have begun to study this phenomenon, yet they tend to give prevalence to relationships between migrant parents, especially mothers, and children. Caregivers are not a focus. This is a consequence of researchers being guided by western conceptualizations of the family where prevalence is given to the nuclear family living in geographical proximity. This paper focuses on a recent study in which all members in a transnational child raising arrangement are the focus: the migrant overseas, the caregiver or multiple caregivers at home and the child him or herself. The study uses a mixed methods approach, which incorporates surveys of children and parents, the mapping of child raising networks with the different actors of a tcra (parents, caregivers and children), and an in-depth, multi-sited ethnographic study of a select number of child raising networks, giving equal attention to all members of a tcra. This paper focuses on the second method and highlights three contributions that such a method makes to our understanding of tcras. First, the mapping of child raising networks helps to identify the perceptions of care held by different members of a tcra. Secondly, discrepancies and similarities between different actors’ perspectives help to understand how tcras function. Finally, mapping child raising networks with all actors involved, gives children a voice which is an element often missing in research about children.
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165. The Bitter and the Sweet: Managerial Perceptions of the Well-Being of Ethiopian Female Apparel and Horticultural Workers.
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Fourie, Elsje, Dito, Bilisuma, Gudeta, Konjit, Schelleman-Offermans, Karen, Mazzucato, Valentina, and Jonas, Kai
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GLOBAL value chains , *WELL-being , *CLOTHING & dress , *FOREIGN workers , *SEMI-structured interviews , *BITTERNESS (Taste) - Abstract
Observers of Ethiopia's entry into export-oriented global value chains generally agree that social upgrading is crucial if these chains' largely female workforce is to reap the benefits of participation. They disagree, however, on the extent to which a 'business case' can be made to involve in this upgrading the managers who link frontline workers to international buyers. This article takes a novel approach to these questions by directly asking these managers and those who advise them on human resources how they understand the well-being of their frontline workers. Drawing on 37 qualitative semi-structured interviews, we find great variation in the extent to which such actors are interested in pursuing worker well-being and social upgrading beyond basic compliance. This is indeed due in part to the sectoral dynamics that have shaped managers' views of what constitutes a profitable labour regime but also by sociocultural factors that include managers' own national contexts, gender and class. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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166. Migration and the education of children who stay behind in Moldova and Georgia.
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Cebotari, Victor, Siegel, Melissa, and Mazzucato, Valentina
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ACADEMIC achievement , *TRANSNATIONALISM , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *SCHOOL children , *ELEMENTARY education , *HIGHER education - Abstract
In Moldova and Georgia, two post-Soviet countries with high emigration rates, there is little systematic empirical research on the school performance of children whose family members migrate. This study uses nationally representative data (Moldova, N = 814; Georgia, N = 655) and employs child- and caregiver-reports of school performance of children living in different transnational family configurations. We found similar assessments of school performance by children and caregivers in Georgia, but results do suggest some differing perceptions in the Moldovan reports. Overall, fathers’ migration, when mothers are caregivers, correspond to worsen education in Georgia. In Moldova, on the contrary, children with migrant fathers and cared for by mothers report improved school performance. Furthermore, in Moldova, better performance associates with parents being abroad, either together or divorced (child-reports) while decreased performance relates to the absence of remittances (caregiver-reports). The findings highlight the importance of considering different transnational characteristics and who makes the assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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167. Stayer youth shaping their transnational family lives: experiences and aspirations of migrants’ children living in Ghana
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Osei, Onallia Esther, Mazzucato, Valentina, Haagsman, Karlijn, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, and RS: FASoS GTD
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A growing number of young people in origin countries reside there without one or both parents due to their parents’ international migration. However, most of the current literature overlooks the perceptions and agency of these youth due to increasing attention on what migrant parents and local caregivers do for stayer youth's experiences and aspirations. Contemporary youth studies call on emerging scholarships like this study to engage with youth for an extensive understanding of their experiences and aspirations. This is a case study of Ghanaian stayer youth's lives. I “followed” thirty-eight stayer youth for 15 months to understand their experiences and aspirations through a youth-centric ethnography. This study shows that stayer youth are agentic in shaping their experiences and aspirations over time within their transnational family context. These young people show their agency through the way they employ ICTs to maintain and shape their relationships with their parents abroad; how they mobilize broader local and transnational social support networks to ensure their educational trajectories; and the way they adapt their aspirations to match the resources that are available to them. This study shows the importance of going beyond the dyad or triad (migrant parent-stayer youth or migration parent-caregiver-stayer youth) that has characterised most transnational family studies, to account for all relationships or interactions that shape these youth's experiences and aspirations.
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- 2023
168. Young lives on the move
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Sarah Anschütz, Mazzucato, Valentina, Clycq, Noel, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, and RS: FASoS GTD
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youth-centric ,migration ,multi-sited ,transnational engagements ,Ghana ,ethnography ,mobility ,migrant youth ,Belgium ,Transnational migration ,affect ,youth mobility trajectories ,transnational families ,transnational youth mobility ,homeland visits - Abstract
One in five young people across the European Union has a migration background, meaning that either they or their parents were born abroad. Many of these young people engage in visits to the country of origin on a regular basis and/or have been mobile before they migrated to Europe. Even though there is much research on the impact of migration on young people, their actual mobility has hardly been investigated. This dissertation investigates how the physical mobility to and within Ghana shapes the lives of Ghanaian-background youth living in Belgium. It does so by examining their ‘mobility trajectories’, that is, not only the migration move but all movements young people undertake over time and across geographically distinct localities, the concomitant family constellations these moves entail, and what happens during mobility. Ethnographic research in Belgium and Ghana with 25 young people of Ghanaian-background reveals how youth use their own mobility and digital media to create and maintain effective engagements, meaning the connections with people and places in the country of origin. These connections in turn shape experiences with family reunification and separation, personal growth and future pathways, and their relationship with the country of origin.
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- 2022
169. Transnational youth mobility trajectories: an ethnography of young people with a migration background between Ghana and Germany
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Laura J. Ogden, Mazzucato, Valentina, Fürstenau, Sara, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, and RS: FASoS GTD
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migrant youth ,Germany ,transnational mobility ,Ghana - Abstract
This thesis investigates the ‘transnational youth mobility trajectories’ of migrant youth, meaning all the moves that young people make in their lives, including migrations but also family visits, holidays, internships, and transitions between different school systems. An increasing proportion of young people around the world have a migration background, and recent research shows that many migrant youth in Europe travel regularly to their country of origin. Nevertheless, we know very little about the way mobility affects their lives. As part of the ‘Mobility Trajectories of Young Lives’ project (www.motrayl.com), this thesis focused on Ghanaian-background youth (15-25 years) living in Hamburg. It shows that migrant youth are very mobile, that the frequency and reasons for their mobility change over time, and that mobility has important effects on their lives in the country of residence. Experiences in the country of origin – including schooling, family environments, and other important relationships – can provide valuable resources, like confidence and motivation, and other forms of support that help migrant youth navigate schooling and life in the country of residence.
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- 2022
170. Young lives on the move : the mobility trajectories and transnational affective engagements of Ghanaian-background youth living in Belgium
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Anschütz, Sarah, Mazzucato, Valentina, and Clycq, Noël
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Sociology - Abstract
One in five young people across the European Union has a migration background, meaning that either they or their parents were born abroad. Many of these young people engage in visits to the country of origin on a regular basis and/or have been mobile before they migrated to Europe. Even though there is much research on the impact of migration on young people, their actual mobility is hardly investigated. Against this backdrop, this dissertation investigates how the physical mobility to and within Ghana shapes the lives of Ghanaian-background youth living in Belgium. It does so by examining their ‘mobility trajectories’, that is, not only the migration move but all geographical moves young people undertake over time and across geographically distinct localities, the concomitant family constellations these moves entail, and the emotional and embodied experiences young people have during mobility. Multi-sited ethnographic research in Belgium and Ghana with 25 young people of Ghanaian-background reveals how youth create and maintain affective engagements with people and places in the country of origin through their own mobility and digital media use, and how these connections in turn shape experiences with family reunification, personal growth, and their relationship with the country of origin. By including both the country of origin and residence, and by analyzing mobility over the life course and in real time, this dissertation gives insights into how young people give meaning to their transnational lives and mobility experiences, and ultimately provides a deeper understanding of the temporalities, emotionalities and impacts of youth mobility.
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- 2022
171. 'You can't limit yourself to one country': Mobility trajectories and transnational engagements of young Dutch-Ghanaians
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Gladys Akosua Serwah Akom Ankobrey, Mazzucato, Valentina, Wagner, Lauren, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, RS: FASoS GTD, and RS: FASoS CGD
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the Netherlands ,transnational youth ,Ghana ,mobility - Abstract
Many young people in Europe with a migration background grow up regularly visiting their or their parents’ country of 'origin'. Although mobility is an intrinsic part of these young people’s lives, little is known about what transpires during their trips and how this affects them. Based on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands and Ghana, this dissertation investigates how young Dutch-Ghanaians’ mobility trajectories shape their engagements with the country of ‘origin’ (i.e. transnational engagements). The concept of ‘mobility trajectories’ captures all the moves young people make over time and across geographically distinct localities, and the shifting family constellations that this entails. By looking at young people’s current trips (undertaken when they enter into adulthood) as they unfold and as part of broader trajectories, this dissertation reveals changes in terms of the people, practices and places that are important to young people during trips to Ghana throughout their life-course. More importantly, it captures the emotions and meaning-making processes underlying young people’s evolving transnational engagements. Ultimately, this dissertation provides a more nuanced understanding of the factors that shape young people’s connections to more than one country as they build a future for themselves.
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- 2022
172. Reunifying Versus Living Apart Together Across Borders: A Comparative Analysis of sub-Saharan Migration to Europe.
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Beauchemin, Cris, Nappa, Jocelyn, Schoumaker, Bruno, Baizan, Pau, González‐Ferrer, Amparo, Caarls, Kim, and Mazzucato, Valentina
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FAMILY reunions , *IMMIGRATION policy , *INTERGENERATIONAL households , *INTERGENERATIONAL relations , *EMIGRATION & immigration ,EUROPEAN emigration & immigration - Abstract
This article studies the process of reunification in Europe among 'living apart together across borders' ( LATAB) couples of African origin ( DR Congo, Ghana, and Senegal). Couple reunion is conceived as a multilevel process, wherein state selection (through immigration policies in destination countries) interacts with self-selection (at the couple level), under influence of the social context at origin. Based on event history analyses of the MAFE project, empirical results show that LATAB is a majority and durable living arrangement for sub-Saharan migrants, that the odds if reunifying depend on gender and inter-generational relationships, and that restrictive contexts at destination do not deter couple reunion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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173. Nederlanders and buitenlanders
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van de Weerd, Lisa Pomme, Cornips, Leonie, Jaspers, J., Wesseling, Elisabeth, Literature & Art, Jaspers, Jürgen, WESSELING, Lies WL, Mazzucato, Valentina, Van de Vall, Renée, De Brabanter, Philippe, Calabrese, Laura, Bucholtz, Mary, and Madsen, Lian Malai
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Turkish ,ethnographie ,Ethnic group ,integration ,ethnography ,Scientific discourse ,Ethnography ,linguistic anthropology ,origin ,Meaning (existential) ,Sociology ,Religious orientation ,sociolinguistics ,Anthropologie culturelle et sociale ,education ,youth ,Sociolinguistique ,ethnicité ,Gender studies ,éducation ,categorization ,language.human_language ,labels ,Linguistic anthropology ,Categorization ,categorisation ,language ,ethnicity - Abstract
‘Nederlanders and buitenlanders: A sociolinguistic ethnographic study of ethnic categorization among secondary school pupils’ is a study based on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork among pupils of the vocational track of a secondary school in Venlo, the Netherlands. Many of these pupils had a migration background, and though they were born in the Netherlands, they often referred to themselves as buitenlander (‘foreigner’), Marokkaan (‘Moroccan’), or Turk (‘Turk’), and referred to others without migration backgrounds as Nederlanders (‘Dutch people’).In this dissertation, van de Weerd combines ethnographic descriptions of the local context with ethnomethodological analyses of interactions to analyze such self- and other-categorizations. Although the use of categories such as Nederlander and buitenlander are commonly interpreted as straightforward indications of (dis) identification with a country or ethnic identity, it is argued that their meanings are constructed and negotiated in local interactions and are therefore much more complex. The pupils in this study, for instance, regularly discussed categories in association with certain clothing styles, language, or behavior, or jokingly teased each other by speaking negatively about these categories. The dissertation furthermore analyzes the relation between categorization practices and the use of different linguistic resources such as Dutch, Limburgish, Turkish, Arabic, and/ or Berber. ‘Nederlanders and buitenlanders’ may be of relevance to researchers interested in categorization in interaction, ethnicity, identification, the effects of diversification outside the metropolitan area, and more broadly, linguistic ethnography and sociocultural linguistics., Dans Néerlandais et étrangers, j'étudie la façon dont les élèves du secondaire à Venlo, ‘classe 3/4b,’ se sont référés aux hiérarchies sociales locales et sociétales, et comment ils ont traité ce sujet, en se catégorisant eux-mêmes et les uns les autres en termes ethniques et en utilisant différents moyens linguistiques. La question de recherche, introduite dans le Chapitre 1, est la suivante: Quelles sont les significations et les fonctions respectives des catégories ethniques et des moyens linguistiques utilisés pour les élèves et les enseignants de la classe 3/4b ?J'ai mené cette étude sur la base des données recueillies pendant neuf mois de travail ethnographique sur le terrain avec les élèves, et en analysant les interactions entre les élèves, les enseignants et moi-même, principalement avec l'analyse de la catégorisation des membres (ACM) et l'analyse de la conversation (AC).À peu près la moitié des élèves de la classe 3/4b sont d'origine étrangère et, bien qu'ils soient nés aux Pays-Bas, ils se classent régulièrement, eux- mêmes et les autres, sous les étiquettes ‘étranger’, ‘Marocain’ et ‘Turc’, et qualifient les autres (mais pas eux-mêmes) de ‘Néerlandais’. Cette catégorisation faisait partie des interactions quotidiennes, que ce soit en se taquinant, en faisant ses devoirs ou en racontant des ragots sur des connaissances. L'utilisation de divers moyens linguistiques (en plus du néerlandais standard, les élèves ont utilisé l'arabe, le berbère, le turc, et les dialectes régionaux de Venlo et Tegelen, entre autres, dans leurs interactions) s'est également avérée importante pour élaborer ces catégories et en discuter., Doctorat en Langues, lettres et traductologie, info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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- 2020
174. Being mobile, becoming educated
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Joan (Johanna Hendrikje Maria) van Geel, Mazzucato, Valentina, Schneider, Hildegard, RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, Technology & Society Studies, and RS: FASoS GTD
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- 2019
175. Migration and networks in transit
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Marieke Wissink, Mazzucato, Valentina, Düvell, F., RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, Technology & Society Studies, and RS: FASoS GTD
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transnational migration ,Sub saharan ,Geography ,Turkey ,Greece ,Transit migration ,Irregular migration ,irregular migration ,Economic geography ,Social networks - Abstract
Journeys of irregular migrants are often far from easy, straightforward moves from one country to another. This is typically explained in relation to restrictive migration policies, and by migrants’ difficulties with providing financial support to their social networks in their countries of origin. Such reasoning is based on assumptions about the anticipated course of the journey and the role of migrants’ social networks. This thesis questions such assumptions and investigates the mechanisms by which journeys evolve. It shows how this evolution is related to changes taking place in migrants’ social networks and the experience of critical events. The findings stress the importance of viewing migration as part of people’s life trajectories, which can take unexpected and uncalculated turns.
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- 2019
176. Protecting across borders: Sudanese families across the Netherlands, the UK and Sudan
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Ester Serra Mingot, Mazzucato, Valentina, Baby-Collin, V., Technology & Society Studies, and RS: FASoS GTD
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Sudan ,African migrants ,transnationalism ,transnational families ,social protection - Abstract
Cette these examine la facon dont les migrants soudanais aux Pays-Bas et au Royaume-Uni organisent leur protection sociale, pour eux et leurs familles au Soudan, localement et au-dela des frontieres. Dans notre monde globalise, de plus en plus de personnes vivent au-dela des frontieres nationales, developpant des attaches et des responsabilites dans plus d’un Etat-nation. Toutefois, les systemes de protection sociale formels traditionnels ont ete concus pour repondre aux besoins de populations sedentaires liees a un seul pays. Dans ce contexte, cette these examine les strategies que les migrants developpent pour couvrir leurs propres besoins de protection sociale et/ou ceux de leurs familles, englobant une serie d'elements formels et informels provenant de differentes institutions (Etats, marches, organisations du tiers secteur ou reseaux sociaux informels). En prenant la famille elargie comme unite analytique principale, cette these montre que meme si certaines ressources formelles sont disponibles pour des individus migrants, elles peuvent ne pas correspondre aux choix privilegies pour la protection sociale de leur famille. En prenant en consideration le contexte soudanais, cette these souligne l’importance des normes socio-culturelles du pays d’origine sur la maniere dont le soutien intra-familial, en particulier les soins, doit etre fourni. Cette these est basee sur les donnees collectees durant 14 mois d'ethnographie multi-situee conduite avec des migrants aux Pays-Bas et au Royaume-Uni, et leurs familles au Soudan.
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- 2018
177. Migration, family separation and caregiving across borders
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Miranda Poeze, Mazzucato, Valentina, van Walsum, S., Dito, Bilisuma, and RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE
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Family unit ,Shared parenting ,Gender studies ,The Netherlands ,Left behind ,migration ,Raising (linguistics) ,Ghana ,ethnography ,Family dynamics ,Ethnography ,transnational families ,Sociology ,Family reunification ,Socioeconomic status ,family reunification - Abstract
Migrant parents cannot always migrate with their children. This dissertation examined how the contexts of the home and host countries influenced transnational family dynamics. Ethnographic research among Ghanaian migrant parents in the Netherlands and the children they left behind in Ghana reveals that cultural norms around shared parenting facilitate translational family relationships and mitigate negative effects on individual family members, while at the same time making traditional practices more challenging. The legal and economic status of migrant parents and the options for family reunification also determine how transnational parenting is practised and what the consequences are for individual family members and the stability of the family unit as a whole.
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- 2018
178. Parenting across borders : effects of transnational parenting on the lives of Angolan and Nigerian migrant parents in The Netherlands
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R.K. Haagsman, Mazzucato, Valentina, Dito, Bilisuma, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASoS GTD, and RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE
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transnational separation ,Political science ,Media studies ,Context (language use) ,Demographic economics ,migrant parents ,Socioeconomic status ,Country of origin - Abstract
This study is about Angolan and Nigerian parents who live in the Netherlands, but whose children reside in the country of origin. It examines whether this separation effects the wellbeing of the migrant parent. The study reveals that transnational separation can indeed have a negative impact on the wellbeing of the parents. However, this separation does not have to be problematic if good family arrangements are made, such as maintaining regular contact with the child. Furthermore, the context of migration and integration proves a crucial factor. Undocumented migrants and migrants with a low socioeconomic status are particularly prone to reduced wellbeing, partly due to limitations in migration policy that can hinder physical contact with the child.
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- 2015
179. The economic and social effects of remittances and return migration in conflict-affected areas : the case of Burundi
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S. Fransen, Mazzucato, Valentina, Koser, K., Vargas-Silva, C., and RS: FSE
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migration ,development - Abstract
This dissertation studies the effects of remittances and return migration on households and communities in Burundi and shows that in a conflict-affected country such as Burundi, which is one of the poorest countries the world, migration does not have the anticipated development-boosting effect that comes forward from the policy and academic literature on migration and development. The economic development impact of remittances, for example, was limited because remittances did not reach the citizens who needed it the most. Similarly, return migration led to structural inequalities between return and non-return households in terms of land ownership and was found to negatively affect the living conditions of non-return households as well. The findings of this research highlight the necessity of a basic level of development before migration can positively affect development.
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- 2015
180. Family-member migration and the psychosocial health outcomes of children in Moldova and Georgia
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M.T. Vanore, Mazzucato, Valentina, Siegel, M., and RS: FSE
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family-member migration ,impacts ,geographic locations - Abstract
This dissertation examined the relationship between family-member migration and the psychosocial health of children remaining in the origin country. Using survey data collected in Moldova and Georgia, analyses revealed that child-migrant separation does not correspond to universally negative child emotional health outcomes. In Georgia, no form of family-member migration corresponded to unfavourable psychosocial health outcomes; in Moldova, only the migration of a father corresponded to worse outcomes, and only among boys. These results suggest that the potential impacts of migration on child psychosocial health are heterogeneous and shaped by factors such as the gender of the migrant and child.
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- 2015
181. Living apart together across borders : how Ghanaian couples form, transform, or dissolve in the context of international migration
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Caarls, K., Mazzucato, Valentina, Dito, Bilisuma, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASoS GTD, and RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE
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Ghanaian couples ,living apart together across borders - Abstract
This thesis provides insight into the role of international migration in how Ghanaian couples form, transform or dissolve. It investigates if, when and where families live geographically separate from each other and if, when and where they reunify. Employing a transnational approach, this dissertation incorporated the notion that migrants are embedded in multiple contexts. This means that: 1) the contexts of the sending and receiving countries are taken into account, 2) couples that did not migrate are included, and 3) the findings are contextualized by considering the cultural and familial norms of the sending country. This thesis demonstrates that the sending country context as well as the receiving country context affects the way in which families live transnationally or reunify. Comparing migrants and non-migrants showed that international migration shapes the transnational family, and it also reveals that some types of living arrangements are related to socio-cultural practices in the sending country, which emphasizes the importance of taking the sending country context into account when studying processes related to international migration. At the same time, restrictive policies and different normative contexts in receiving countries also influence the formation and transformation of transnational family life.
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182. Socio-economic inequities in mental health problems and wellbeing among women working in the apparel and floriculture sectors: testing the mediating role of psychological capital, social support and tangible assets.
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Schelleman-Offermans K, Dito BB, Gudeta KH, Fourie E, Kebede SW, Mazzucato V, and Jonas KJ
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- Humans, Female, Adult, Cross-Sectional Studies, Ethiopia, Middle Aged, Socioeconomic Factors, Young Adult, Health Status Disparities, Mental Health statistics & numerical data, Surveys and Questionnaires, Social Support, Mental Disorders psychology, Mental Disorders epidemiology
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Background: It is still unknown whether the mechanisms proposed by the Reserve Capacity Model (RCM) explaining socio-economic health and wellbeing inequities in high income countries can be applied to low-income countries. This study investigates whether different reserve capacities (intra-, inter-personal, and tangible) can explain the association between relative socio-economic position (SEP) and wellbeing outcome measures among Ethiopian women working in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)., Method: Using a cross-sectional design, we collected quantitative survey data among 2,515 women working in the apparel and floriculture sectors in Ethiopia, measuring GHQ-12 mental health problems, multi-dimensional wellbeing, relative SEP, psychological capital (PsyCap), social support (emotional and financial social support network), and tangible assets (e.g., owning mobile phone, having access to toilet facilities). We used cluster-adjusted structural equation modelling to test whether PsyCap, social support, and/or tangible assets mediate the association between relative SEP (IV) and GHQ-12 mental health problems and multi-dimensional wellbeing (DVs)., Results: PsyCap and the size of the financial support network significantly mediate the socio-economic gradient in both wellbeing outcomes. The size of the emotional social support network shows no association with multi-dimensional wellbeing and shows an unexpected negative association with GHQ-12 mental health problems scores, including a significant mediation effect. Tangible assets show no association with the wellbeing outcome measures and do not mediate socio-economic mental health problems and wellbeing inequities., Conclusions: The RCM can be applied in low-income countries, although in unexpected ways. Similar to findings from high-income countries, PsyCap and size of the financial social support network show significant mediation effects in explaining mental health problems and wellbeing inequities in Ethiopia. These reserves could therefore serve as a buffer for socio-economic inequities in mental health and wellbeing and can therefore assist in decreasing these inequities for women working in FDI sectors in Ethiopia., (© 2024. The Author(s).)
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- 2024
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183. Transnational youth mobility: new categories for migrant youth research.
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Mazzucato V and Haagsman K
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Large-scale research on migrant youth categorises youth along two lines: ethnicity and generation. Yet insights from smaller-scale qualitative studies indicate that it is important to experiment with categories based on mobility. While these studies have shown that young people's mobility affects their identities, educational resilience, sense of belonging and sense of self, findings have not led to new thinking about categories used in large-scale migrant youth research. Given this lacuna, we investigate young people's mobility, understood here as long or short trips to countries other than where they reside, based on a large-scale survey in three European countries ( N = 2019). We find that travels are common amongst secondary school pupils of both migrant and non-migrant background and that youth with a migration background primarily travel to their or their parents' 'home' country. While lower socio-economic status is associated with less frequent travel for the general population, it is not linked to the frequency of travel of youth with a migration background. In today's globalised world, where there are important distinctions between those who can travel and those who cannot, our findings call for putting the mobility of young people at the heart of analytical categories., Competing Interests: No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)., (© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.)
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- 2022
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184. A Longitudinal Analysis of Well-Being of Ghanaian Children in Transnational Families.
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Cebotari V, Mazzucato V, and Appiah E
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- Adolescent, Caregivers, Child, Child Welfare, Emigration and Immigration, Female, Ghana ethnology, Happiness, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Transients and Migrants psychology, Young Adult, Emigrants and Immigrants psychology, Parents, Psychology, Adolescent, Psychology, Child, Quality of Life
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This study is the first to employ panel data to examine well-being outcomes-self-rated health, happiness, life satisfaction, and school enjoyment-of children in transnational families in an African context. It analyzes data collected in 2013, 2014, and 2015 from secondary schoolchildren and youth (ages 12-21) in Ghana (N = 741). Results indicate that children with fathers, mothers, or both parents away and those cared for by a parent, a family, or a nonfamily member are equally or more likely to have higher levels of well-being as children in nonmigrant families. Yet, there are certain risk factors-being a female, living in a family affected by divorce or by a change in caregiver while parents migrate-that may decrease child well-being., (© 2017 The Authors. Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development.)
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- 2018
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185. Gendered Perceptions of Migration Among Ghanaian Children in Transnational Care.
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Cebotari V, Mazzucato V, and Siegel M
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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.
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- 2017
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186. 'Left behind' but not left alone: parental migration & the psychosocial health of children in Moldova.
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Vanore M, Mazzucato V, and Siegel M
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- Age Factors, Caregivers psychology, Child, Family ethnology, Humans, Moldova ethnology, Parent-Child Relations, Psychometrics, Time Factors, Child Health, Emigrants and Immigrants psychology, Family psychology, Mental Health
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In Moldova, large-scale and rapidly feminised migration flows have inspired a wave of qualitative reports on children "left behind". Despite this recent interest, few studies have empirically evaluated the effects of parental migration on the psychosocial health of such children. Using data collected from a nationally-representative household survey conducted in Moldova between September 2011 and February 2012, this paper analyses the psychosocial health outcomes of children of migrant parents by comparing them with children without migrant parents (n = 1979). Child psychosocial health is measured through caregiver-reported Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) scores. Multivariate regression analyses show that parental migration seldom corresponds to worse emotional symptoms outcomes but does correspond to increased conduct problems. Separate analyses for male and female children show significant gendered differences. The results partially contest the negative results that have been the subject of qualitative reports and, in particular, demonstrate that the migration of mothers infrequently results in worse psychosocial outcomes for children-contrary to what has been assumed in the discourse about parental migration in Moldova., (Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
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- 2015
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187. International parental migration and the psychological well-being of children in Ghana, Nigeria, and Angola.
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Mazzucato V, Cebotari V, Veale A, White A, Grassi M, and Vivet J
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- Adolescent, Angola ethnology, Caregivers psychology, Child, Preschool, Family ethnology, Female, Ghana ethnology, Humans, Male, Nigeria ethnology, Parent-Child Relations, Psychometrics, Regression Analysis, Socioeconomic Factors, Child Health, Emigrants and Immigrants psychology, Family psychology
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When parents migrate, leaving their children in the origin country, transnational families are formed. Transnational family studies on children who are "left behind" indicate that children suffer psychologically from parental migration. Many of the factors identified as affecting children's responses to parental migration however are not considered in child psychology and family sociology studies. This study aims to bridge these areas of knowledge by quantitatively investigating the association between transnational families and children's psychological well-being. It analyzes a survey conducted in three African countries in 2010-11 (Ghana N = 2760; Angola N = 2243; Nigeria N = 2168) amongst pupils of secondary schools. The study compares children in transnational families to those living with their parents in their country of origin. Children's psychological well-being is measured through the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Multiple regression analyses reveal that children in transnational families fare worse than their counterparts living with both parents but not in Ghana where living conditions mediate this relationship. This paper also looks at four characteristics of transnational families and finds that specific characteristics of transnational families and country contexts matter: (1) changing caregivers is associated with poorer well-being in all countries; (2) which parent migrates does not make a difference in Ghana, when mothers migrate and fathers are caregivers results in poorer well-being in Nigeria, and both mother's and father's migration result in worse outcomes in Angola; (3) the kin relationship of the caregiver is not associated with poorer well-being in Ghana and Nigeria but is in Angola; (4) children with parents who migrate internationally do not show different results than children whose parents migrate nationally in Ghana and Nigeria but in Angola international parental migration is associated with poorer psychological well-being. The study shows that broader characteristics in the population rather than parental migration per se are associated with decreased levels of well-being., (Copyright © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
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188. Transnational Families and the Well-Being of Children: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges.
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Mazzucato V and Schans D
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