Mobility trajectories of young lives: Life chances of transnational youths in Global South and North

Project Information

MO-TRAYL

Grant agreement ID: 682982

DOI 10.3030/682982

Project closed

EC signature date 13 July 2016

Start date 1 January 2017

End date 30 June 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 937 500,00

EU contribution € 1 937 500,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT
Netherlands

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (18)

Reconceptualizing family reunification from a youth mobilities perspective: transnational youth between Ghana and Belgium

Author(s): Sarah Anschütz, Valentina Mazzucato
Published in: Children's Geographies, 2021, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 1473-3285
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2021.1919998

Extraordinary everydayness: Young people's affective engagements with the country of origin through digital media and transnational mobility

Author(s): Sarah Anschütz
Published in: Global Networks, 2022, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 1471-0374
Publisher: Wiley Online Library
DOI: 10.1111/glob.12364

Transnational peer relationships as social capital: mobile migrant youth between Ghana and Germany

Author(s): Laura J. Ogden, Valentina Mazzucato
Published in: Journal of Youth Studies, 2021, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 1367-6261
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2020.1869197

Aspiring While Waiting: Temporality and pacing of Ghanaian stayer youth's migration aspirations

Author(s): Onallia Esther Osei, Valentina Mazzucato, Karlijn Haagsman
Published in: Social Inclusion, Issue 10(4), 2022, Page(s) 129-137, ISSN 2183-2803
Publisher: Cogitatio Press
DOI: 10.17645/si.v10i4.5662

Travel and personal growth: the value of visits to the country of origin for transnational migrant youth

Author(s): Sarah Anschütz; Valentina Mazzucato
Published in: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Issue 4, 2022, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 0305-7925
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/03057925.2022.2036593

Following the 'hype': The role of leisure practices during 'homeland' visits in transnational youth's way of relating to Ghana

Author(s): Gladys Akom Ankobrey
Published in: Global Networks, Issue 23(1), 2023, Page(s) 262-276, ISSN 1470-2266
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/glob.12413

Overcoming Interruptions in Educational Trajectories: Youth in Ghana with international migrant parents

Author(s): Onallia Esther Osei, Karlijn Haagsman, Valentina Mazzucato
Published in: Global Networks, Issue 23(2), 2022, Page(s) 428-443, ISSN 1470-2266
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/glob.12404

Transnational cultural capital in migrant youth’s school transitions: mobility trajectories between Ghana and Germany

Author(s): Laura J. Ogden
Published in: Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2022, ISSN 1476-7724
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2022.2114071

Changing relationships to the country of origin through transnational mobility: migrant youth’s visits to Ghana

Author(s): Laura J. Ogden, Valentina Mazzucato
Published in: Mobilities, Issue 17, 3, 2021, Page(s) 397-414, ISSN 1745-0101
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1935304

Building Educational Resilience Through Transnational Mobility Trajectories: Young People Between Ghana and The Netherlands

Author(s): Joan van Geel, Valentina Mazzucato
Published in: YOUNG, Issue 29/2, 2021, Page(s) 119-136, ISSN 1103-3088
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/1103308820940184

'Giving back' through mobility trajectories: motivations for engaging in development encounters in Ghana among transnational youth

Author(s): Gladys Akom Ankobrey; Valentina Mazzucato; Lauren Wagner
Published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Issue 48, 9, 2022, Page(s) 2018-2036, ISSN 1369-183X
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2021.1959304

Transnational youth mobility: new categories for migrant youth research

Author(s): Valentina Mazzucato; Karlijn Haagsman
Published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Issue 4, 2022, ISSN 1369-183X
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2022.2031926

A Longitudinal Analysis of Well-Being of Ghanaian Children in Transnational Families

Author(s): Victor Cebotari, Valentina Mazzucato, Ernest Appiah
Published in: Child Development, 2017, ISSN 0009-3920
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12879

Conceptualising youth mobility trajectories: thinking beyond conventional categories

Author(s): Joan van Geel, Valentina Mazzucato
Published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Issue 44/13, 2018, Page(s) 2144-2162, ISSN 1369-183X
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2017.1409107

Transnational families: Cross-country comparative perspectives

Author(s): Valentina Mazzucato, Bilisuma B. Dito
Published in: Population, Space and Place, 2018, Page(s) e2165, ISSN 1544-8444
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/psp.2165

African transnational families: Cross-country and gendered comparisons

Author(s): Kim Caarls, Karlijn Haagsman, Elisabeth K. Kraus, Valentina Mazzucato
Published in: Population, Space and Place, 2018, Page(s) e2162, ISSN 1544-8444
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/psp.2162

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

Author(s): Joan van Geel
Published in: Critical Studies in Education, 2019, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 1750-8487
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2019.1650382

'Why Are You Not Crying?': Understanding Young People’s Transnational Engagements through Funeral Visits to Ghana

Author(s): Gladys Akom Ankobrey, Valentina Mazzucato, Lauren Wagner
Published in: African Diaspora, Issue 13(1-2), 2021, Page(s) 93-118, ISSN 1872-5465
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/18725465-bja10015

Book chapters (4)

‘Doing’ Teamwork as ‘Doing’ Family: Researching Transnational Migrant Families through Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Author(s): Valentina Mazzucato, Bilisuma Dito, Karlijn Haagsman
Published in: Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle: Learning by Example in Humanities and Social Science Research, 2023, Page(s) 293-307, ISBN 9783031111082
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-11108-2_16

Mapping Transnational Networks of Care from a Multi-actor and Multi-sited Perspective

Author(s): Valentina Mazzucato, Ernestina Dankyi, Miranda Poeze
Published in: Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins, Issue 7, 2017, Page(s) 269-284, ISBN 978-94-024-1139-3
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-1141-6_14

Mobility Trajectory Mapping for Researching the Lives and Learning Experiences of Transnational Youth

Author(s): Valentina Mazzucato, Gladys Akom Ankobrey, Sarah Anschütz, Laura J. Ogden, Onallia Esther Osei
Published in: (Re)Mapping Migration and Education: Centering Methods and Methodologies, Issue 8, 2022, Page(s) 38-64, ISBN 978-90-04-52273-2
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004522732_003

Sustaining Ghanaian Transnational Parent–Child Relationships through WhatsApp: A Youth-Centric Perspective

Author(s): Onallia Esther Osei, Valentina Mazzucato, Karlijn Haagsman
Published in: Handbook of Transnational Families Around the World, 2023, Page(s) 97-111, ISBN 978-3-031-15278-8
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15278-8_7

Thesis and dissertations (4)

'You can't limit yourself to one country': Mobility trajectories and transnational engagements of young Dutch-Ghanaians

Author(s): Gladys Akom Ankobrey
Published in: 2022, Page(s) 1-235, ISBN 9789464238624
Publisher: Maastricht University
DOI: 10.26481/dis.20220602gaa

Stayer youth shaping their transnational family lives: experiences and aspirations of migrants’ children living in Ghana

Author(s): Onallia Esther Osei
Published in: 2023, Page(s) 1-150, ISBN 978-94-6469-409-3
Publisher: Maastricht University
DOI: 10.26481/dis.20230620oo

Young lives on the move: The mobility trajectories and transnational affective engagements of Ghanaian background youth living in Belgium

Author(s): Sarah Anschütz
Published in: 2022, Page(s) 207, ISBN 9789464238327
Publisher: Maastricht University
DOI: 10.26481/dis.20220530sa

Transnational youth mobility trajectories: an ethnography of young people with a migration background between Ghana and Germany

Author(s): Laura J. Ogden
Published in: 2022, Page(s) 219pp, ISBN 9789464238310
Publisher: ProefschriftMaken
DOI: 10.26481/dis.20220601lo

Monographic books (1)

Finding your voice: an intercultural storytelling workshop with young people

Author(s): Gladys Akom Ankobrey, Sarah Anschütz, Karlijn Haagsman, Valentina Mazzucato, Laura Ogden, Onallia Esther Osei
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Die Keure