'I wish, I wish...': mobility, immobility and the global ‘imaginings’ of Nigerian transnational children

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dc.contributor.authorVeale, Angela
dc.contributor.authorAndres, Camilla
dc.contributor.funderSeventh Framework Programmeen
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-31T15:47:56Z
dc.date.available2019-01-31T15:47:56Z
dc.date.issued2014-08
dc.date.updated2019-01-31T15:33:26Z
dc.description.abstractTransnational migration characterised by temporary or ongoing border-crossings has been hailed as a means by which migrants can creatively sustain the economic life of their families while establishing connections and social networks in different nation states (Vertovec, 2007). Yet Al-Ali and Koser (2002) caution that transnational mobility is not equally accessible to all migrants; gender relations, household structures, legal status and access to entitlements can all act as barriers to migrant mobility. While the transnational migration literature emphasises connected social networks across bi-national locations, it has insufficiently captured the ‘stuckness’ experienced by many African transnational migrants once they reach Europe and that of their children back home. The differently-situated position of children with respect to transnational mobility is under-researched in the academic literature. While the children of the global elite can move with relative ease (Nette and Hayden 2007), the children of middle-class and poor families in the developing world, such as Africa, encounter significant barriers to transnational mobility. In particular, the left-behind children of European-based African migrant parents are part of an increasing population of children whose lives are defined by the opportunities but also the constraints of globalisation.en
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dc.identifier.citationVeale, A. and Andres, C. (2014) ''I wish, I wish...': Reflections on mobility, immobility and the global 'imaginings' of Nigerian transnational children', in Veale, A. and Dona, G. (eds)., Child & Youth Migration: Mobility-in Migration in an Era of Globalization, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 140-162. isbn:9781137280664en
dc.identifier.endpage162en
dc.identifier.isbn9781137280664
dc.identifier.startpage140en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7413
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillanen
dc.relation.ispartofChild & Youth Migration: Mobility-in Migration in an Era of Globalization
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7::SP1::SSH/235548/EU/NORFACE Transnational Programme on Migration in Europe/NORFACE PLUSen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137280664
dc.rights© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014.en
dc.subjectTransnational migrationen
dc.subjectPsychologyen
dc.subjectDevelopmenten
dc.subjectChildrenen
dc.subjectFamiliesen
dc.subjectAfricaen
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.subjectNigeriaen
dc.subjectImmigrantsen
dc.subjectPoliticsen
dc.subjectAsylumen
dc.title'I wish, I wish...': mobility, immobility and the global ‘imaginings’ of Nigerian transnational childrenen
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