2,212
Views
7
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

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

ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon
Pages 344-361 | Received 29 May 2020, Accepted 21 Dec 2020, Published online: 07 Jan 2021

References

  • Abada, T., and E. Y. Tenkorang. 2009. “Pursuit of University Education among the Children of Immigrants in Canada: the Roles of Parental Human Capital and Social Capital.” Journal of Youth Studies 12 (2): 185–207.
  • Baldassar, L. 2016. “De-Demonizing Distance in Mobile Family Lives: Co-Presence, Care Circulation and Polymedia as Vibrant Matter.” Global Networks 16 (2): 145–163.
  • Baldassar, L., and L. Merla, eds. 2014. Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care: Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life. New York: Routledge.
  • Berggren, J., A. Torpsten, and U. Järkestig Berggren. 2020. “Education is my Passport: Experiences of Institutional Obstacles among Immigrant Youth in the Swedish Upper Secondary Educational System.” Journal of Youth Studies. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2020.1728239.
  • Bourdieu, P. 1986. “The Forms of Capital.” In Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education, edited by J. G. Richardson, 241–258. New York: Greenwood Press.
  • Chesters, J., and J. Smith. 2015. “Social Capital and Aspirations for Educational Attainment: a Cross-National Comparison of Australia and Germany.” Journal of Youth Studies 18 (7): 932–949.
  • Cheung Judge, R., M. Blazek, and J. Esson. 2020. “Editorial: Transnational Youth Mobilities: Emotions, Inequities, and Temporalities.” Population, Space and Place 26 (6): e2307. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2307.
  • Coe, C. 2012. “Growing Up and Going Abroad: How Ghanaian Children Imagine Transnational Migration.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 38 (6): 913–931.
  • Coe, C., R. R. Reynolds, D. A. Boehm, J. M. Hess, and H. Rae-Espinoza, eds. 2011. Everyday Ruptures: Children, Youth, and Migration in Global Perspective. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
  • Coleman, J. S. 1988. “Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital.” American Journal of Sociology 94 (Supplement): 95–120.
  • Collins, W. A., and B. Laursen. 2004. “Changing Relationships, Changing Youth: Interpersonal Contexts of Adolescent Development.” Journal of Early Adolescence 24 (1): 55–62.
  • Dreby, J. 2007. “Children and Power in Mexican Transnational Families.” Journal of Marriage and Family 69 (4): 1050–1064.
  • Fernández-Kelly, P. 2008. “The Back Pocket Map: Social Class and Cultural Capital as Transferable Assets in the Advancement of Second-Generation Immigrants.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 620 (1): 116–137.
  • Franceschelli, M., I. Schoon, and K. Evans. 2017. “'Your Past Makes You Who You Are’: Retrospective Parenting and Relational Resilience Among Black Caribbean British Young People.” Sociological Research Online 22 (4): 48–65.
  • Fresnoza-Flot, A. 2009. “Migration Status and Transnational Mothering: the Case of Filipino Migrants in France.” Global Networks 9 (2): 252–270.
  • Fürstenau, S. 2005. “Migrants’ Resources: Multilingualism and Transnational Mobility. A Study on Learning Paths and School to Job Transition of Young Portuguese Migrants.” European Educational Research Journal 4 (4): 369–381.
  • Glick Schiller, N., L. Basch, and C. Blanc-Szanton. 1992. “Transnationalism: A new Analytic Framework for Understanding Migration.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 645 (1): 1–24.
  • Haagsman, K., and V. Mazzucato. 2014. “The Quality of Parent–Child Relationships in Transnational Families: Angolan and Nigerian Migrant Parents in the Netherlands.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 40 (11): 1677–1696.
  • Haikkola, L. 2011. “Making Connections: Second-Generation Children and the Transnational Field of Relations.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 37 (8): 1201–1217.
  • Holland, J., T. Reynolds, and S. Weller. 2007. “Transitions, Networks and Communities: The Significance of Social Capital in the Lives of Children and Young People.” Journal of Youth Studies 10 (1): 97–116.
  • Keay, A., J. Lang, and N. Frederickson. 2015. “Comprehensive Support for Peer Relationships at Secondary Transition.” Educational Psychology in Practice 31 (3): 279–292.
  • King, R., and A. Christou. 2011. “Of Counter-Diaspora and Reverse Transnationalism: Return Mobilities to and from the Ancestral Homeland.” Mobilities 6 (4): 483–501.
  • Lee, M., and B. O. Lam. 2016. “The Academic Achievement of Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Immigrant Adolescents: A Social Capital Perspective.” International Review of Sociology 26 (1): 144–173.
  • Levitt, P., and N. Glick Schiller. 2004. “Conceptualizing Simultaneity: a Transnational Social Field Perspective on Society.” International Migration Review 38 (3): 1002–1039.
  • Louie, V. 2006. “Second-generation Pessimism and Optimism: How Chinese and Dominicans Understand Education and Mobility Through Ethnic and Transnational Orientations.” International Migration Review 40 (3): 537–572.
  • Madianou, M., and D. Miller. 2011. “Mobile Phone Parenting: Reconfiguring Relationships Between Filipina Migrant Mothers and Their Left-Behind Children.” New Media & Society 13 (3): 457–470.
  • Mariano, J. Menon, J. Going, K. Schrock, and K. Sweeting. 2011. “Youth Purpose and the Perception of Social Supports among African-American Girls.” Journal of Youth Studies 14 (8): 921–937.
  • Mazzucato, V. 2013. “Transnational Families, Research and Scholarship.” In The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, edited by I. Ness. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm541.
  • Mazzucato, V. 2015. Mobility Trajectories of Young Lives: Life Chances of Transnational Youths in Global South and North (MO-TRAYL). Maastricht, The Netherlands: ERC Consolidator Grant No. 682982.
  • Mazzucato, V., G. Akom Ankobrey, S. Anschütz, L. J. Ogden, and O. E. Osei. Forthcoming. “Mobility Trajectory Mapping for Researching the Lives and Learning Experiences of Transnational Youth.” In Innovative Migration Methodologies, edited by C. Magno, J. Lew, S. Rodriguez, and J. Kowalcyzk. Leiden: Brill.
  • Mazzucato, V., B. van den Boom, and N. N. N. Nsowah-Nuamah. 2008. “Remittances in Ghana: Origin, Destination and Issues of Measurement.” International Migration 46 (1): 103–122.
  • Mörath, V. 2015. The Ghanaian Diaspora in Germany. Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
  • Morrow, V. 1999. “Conceptualising Social Capital in Relation to the Well-Being of Children and Young People: a Critical Review.” The Sociological Review 47 (4): 744–765.
  • Noll, A. 2020. Verwandtschaft und Mittelklasse in Ghana: Soziale Differenzierung und familiärer Zusammenhalt [Kinship and the Middle Class in Ghana: Social Differentiation and Family Cohesion]. Cologne: Rüdige Köppe Verlag.
  • OECD/European Union. 2015. Indicators of Immigrant Integration 2015: Settling In. Paris: OECD Publishing.
  • Orupabo, J., I. Drange, and B. Abrahamsen. 2020. “Multiple Frames of Success: how Second-Generation Immigrants Experience Educational Support and Belonging in Higher Education.” Higher Education 79: 921–937.
  • Parreñas, R. 2005. “Long Distance Intimacy: Class, Gender and Intergenerational Relations Between Mothers and Children in Filipino Transnational Families.” Global Networks 5 (4): 317–336.
  • Pernice-Duca, F. M. 2010. “An Examination of Family and Social Support Networks as a Function of Ethnicity and Gender: a Descriptive Study of Youths from Three Ethnic Reference Groups.” Journal of Youth Studies 13 (3): 391–402.
  • Poeze, M., E. K. Dankyi, and V. Mazzucato. 2017. “Navigating Transnational Childcare Relationships: Migrant Parents and Their Children's Caregivers in the Origin Country.” Global Networks 17 (1): 111–129.
  • Putnam, R. D. 1995. “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital.” Journal of Democracy 6 (1): 65–78.
  • Raffo, C., and M. Reeves. 2000. “Youth Transitions and Social Exclusion: Developments in Social Capital Theory.” Journal of Youth Studies 3 (2): 147–166.
  • Robertson, S., A. Harris, and L. Baldassar. 2018. “Mobile Transitions: a Conceptual Framework for Researching a Generation on the Move.” Journal of Youth Studies 21 (2): 203–217.
  • Ryan, A. M. 2000. “Peer Groups as a Context for the Socialization of Adolescents’ Motivation, Engagement, and Achievement in School.” Educational Psychologist 35 (2): 101–111.
  • Ryan, L., A. D’Angelo, N. Kaye, and M. Lorinc. 2019. “Young People, School Engagement and Perceptions of Support: a Mixed Methods Analysis.” Journal of Youth Studies 22 (9): 1272–1288.
  • Schapendonk, J., and G. Steel. 2014. “Following Migrant Trajectories: The Im/Mobility of Sub-Saharan Africans en Route to the European Union.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 104 (2): 262–270.
  • Schmalzbauer, L. 2008. “Family Divided: the Class Formation of Honduran Transnational Families.” Global Networks 8 (3): 329–346.
  • Sheller, M., and J. Urry. 2006. “The New Mobilities Paradigm.” Environment and Planning A 38 (2): 207–226.
  • Smith, J. F., and Z. Skrbiš. 2016. “Arenas of Comfort and Conflict: Peer Relationship Events and Young People's Educational Attainment.” Journal of Youth Studies 19 (5): 646–664.
  • Statistikamt Nord. 2018. “Bevölkerung mit Migrationshintergrund in den Hamburger Stadtteilen Ende 2017. Mehr als ein Drittel aller Hamburgerinnen und Hamburger hat einen Migrationshintergrund.” [Population with Migration Background in Hamburg Neighbourhoods at the End of 2017. More Than a Third of all Hamburgers has a Migration Background].” Statistik Informiert 2018 (3). https://www.statistik-nord.de/fileadmin/Dokumente/Statistik_informiert_SPEZIAL/SI_SPEZIAL_III_2018.pdf.
  • Studsrød, I., and E. Bru. 2011. “Perceptions of Peers as Socialization Agents and Adjustment in Upper Secondary School.” Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties 16 (2): 159–172.
  • van Geel, J., and V. Mazzucato. 2018. “Conceptualising Youth Mobility Trajectories: Thinking Beyond Conventional Categories.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44 (13): 2144–2162.
  • van Geel, J., and V. Mazzucato. 2020. “Building Educational Resilience Through Mobility Trajectories: Young People Between Ghana and The Netherlands.” Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Studies, doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1103308820940184.
  • van Liempt, I. 2011. “Young Dutch Somalis in the UK: Citizenship, Identities and Belonging in a Transnational Triangle.” Mobilities 6 (4): 569–583.
  • Vertovec, S. 2009. Transnationalism. London: Routledge.
  • Warren, C. A. B. 2011. “Qualitative Interviewing.” In Handbook of Interview Research, edited by J. F. Gubrium and J. A. Holstein, 83–102. Los Angeles: SAGE.
  • Wentzel, K. R., A. Battle, S. L. Russell, and L. B. Looney. 2010. “Social Supports from Teachers and Peers as Predictors of Academic and Social Motivation.” Contemporary Educational Psychology 35 (3): 193–202.
  • Wessendorf, S. 2007. “‘Roots Migrants’: Transnationalism and ‘Return’ among Second-Generation Italians in Switzerland.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 33 (7): 1083–1102.
  • Wimmer, A., and N. Glick Schiller. 2003. “Methodological Nationalism, the Social Sciences, and the Study of Migration: An Essay in Historical Epistemology.” International Migration Review 37 (3): 576–610.