Transnational mobility desires and discourses: Young people from return‐migrant families negotiate intergenerationality, mobility capital, and place embeddedness

In this contribution, the results of an empirical study on young immigrants' learning paths and school to job transition are presented. The study focused on the strategies of successful students from the Portuguese immigrant minority in Hamburg. One aim was to find out whether the young people could profit by their migration experiences and multilingual skills. Increasing the multilingualism of individuals is an official goal of the European Union, and it is predicted that the labour market will give increasing importance to the ability to communicate and work in contexts of linguistic and cultural diversity. The question was, though, whether students from an immigrant minority, whose parents had come to Germany in the course of the labour recruitment, could benefit from this development. Interestingly, the young people of the sample turned out to be highly flexible during their future orientations, considering options in Germany as well as in their country of origin. Their strategies and orientations during school to work transition were analysed on the basis of Pierre Bourdieu's model of the linguistic market and from the perspective of the sociological concept of transnational migration.

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Temporality in Mobile Lives

10.1332/policypress/9781529211511.001.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Shanthi Robertson

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Middle Class ◽

Everyday Life ◽

21St Century ◽

Intimate Relationships ◽

Lived Experiences ◽

Career Pathways ◽

Work Study ◽

The West ◽

Transnational Mobility

This book provides fresh perspectives on 21st-century migratory experiences in this innovative study of young Asian migrants' lives in Australia. Exploring the aspirations and realities of transnational mobility, the book shows how migration has reshaped lived experiences of time for middle-class young people moving between Asia and the West for work, study and lifestyle opportunities. Through a new conceptual framework of 'chronomobilities', which looks at 'time-regimes' and 'time-logics', the book demonstrates how migratory pathways have become far more complex than leaving one country for another, and can profoundly affect the temporalities of everyday life, from career pathways to intimate relationships. Drawing on extensive ethnographic material, the book deepens our understanding of the multifaceted relationship between migration and time.

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Are you mobile, too? The role played by social networks in the intention to move abroad among youth in Europe

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v16i1.622 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 93-104 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Andreas Herz ◽

Laura Díaz-Chorne ◽

Celia Díaz-Catalán ◽

Alice Altissimo ◽

Sahizer Samuk Carignani

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Young People ◽

Quantitative Data ◽

Prior Experience ◽

European Countries ◽

Personal Networks ◽

Professional Experience ◽

Transnational Mobility ◽

Different Types ◽

Intention To Move

Young people are mobile across Europe and transnational mobility is seen as a differentiating factor enabling them to gain personal and professional experience. While relationships are seen as important for mobility, the relevance of personal networks to young people´s thoughts of moving abroad has not received adequate attention. Specifically, different types of relationships with (non-)mobile others to whom young people are connected have not yet been studied as one origin of their thoughts of moving abroad. Grounded in quantitative data from the European H2020 project MOVE (n=5,499) we show that in addition to different aspects of unequal mobility opportunities (young people’s and parents’ socio-demographic status, prior mobility experience, country of residence, occupation) the constitution of young people’s network has a bearing on their mobility prospects. Our results show that young people´s thoughts of moving abroad differ between European countries, decrease with age, increase among students, and increase when respondents and significant others in their networks (parents, partners, friends, other relatives) have prior experience of mobility.

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Development opportunities for adolescents growing up in migratory families in the context of hope of success

Praca Socjalna ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0012.7382 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 33 (3) ◽

pp. 42-69

Author(s):

Natasza Doiczman-Łoboda

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Social Workers ◽

Family Influence ◽

Control Group ◽

Growing Up ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Migrant Families ◽

Economic Migration ◽

Family Sociology ◽

Work Family

The article addresses the problem of hope for success among adolescents growing up in migrant families. This issue is related to the problems of social work, family sociology, and psychology of human development. The knowledge of development opportunities for young people from migrant families may be of particular cognitive value for social workers who face the protective potential of the migrant family in practice. Parents’ departure leads to children becoming independent rapidly, and to family influence on the individual’s life becoming shorter. Many researchers deal with the problem of the negative consequences of migration separation for child development. Few works show the development opportunities and potential of people growing up in families that are spatially separated due to migration. The article describes a fragment of youth’s functioning who had to undertake new duties because of their parents’ departure, such as: taking over the care of their siblings, running their household, and looking after their grandparents with whom they live in the absence of their parents. To determine the level of hope for success among those young people, the Hope for Success Questionnaire by Mariola Łaguna, Jerzy Trzebiński, and Mariusz Zięba was used. The study covered 87 teenagers attending upper-secondary schools in Kujawy-Pomerania Province. The control group consisted of young people whose parents did not migrate abroad for economic reasons, while the criterion group consisted of adolescents growing up in disconnected families. Social workers’ activities include providing help to families. The knowledge of the specific functioning of migration families can help to better support such families. The article aims to discuss the issue of adolescents growing up in migrant families who, because of their parents’ economic migration, must face new responsibilities, often typical of an adult and inadequate for their developmental level.

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Children and vulnerable groups services

Oxford Textbook of Migrant Psychiatry ◽

10.1093/med/9780198833741.003.0049 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 413-422

Author(s):

Diana Miconi ◽

Cécile Rousseau

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Vulnerable Groups ◽

Ecological Approach ◽

Local Schools ◽

Refugee Families ◽

Culturally Adapted ◽

Migrant Families ◽

Provision Of Services ◽

The Individual

In this chapter on children and vulnerable groups services we discuss the challenges involved in the provision of services to migrant and refugee families and young people. Firstly, obstacles preventing migrant and refugee populations from accessing services are identified, and the importance of culturally adapted and culturally safe services is underlined. Secondly, an overview of available interventions at the individual, family, and community level is provided, emphasizing the role of schools as an important bridge between migrant families and the host society. Thirdly, the importance of a resilience-based and ecological approach to provision of services to these vulnerable populations is discussed, and an illustration of a multimodal intervention implemented in collaboration with local schools and communities is provided. Lastly, in light of the complex and heterogeneous needs of migrant and refugee populations, a pyramid, tiered model of provision of services to migrants and refugees is advocated.

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The Uncanny Homely and Unhomely Feeling: Gender and Generation Politics in Return Migrant Families in Hong Kong

International Handbook of Chinese Families ◽

10.1007/978-1-4614-0266-4_6 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 91-113

Author(s):

Chan Wai-wan ◽

Chan Kwok-bun

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Return Migrant ◽

The Uncanny ◽

Migrant Families

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

Young ◽

10.1177/1103308820940184 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 110330882094018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Joan van Geel ◽

Valentina Mazzucato

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Ecological Model ◽

Educational Resilience ◽

Mobility Patterns ◽

Transnational Mobility ◽

School Year ◽

Migrant Youth ◽

Institutional Actors ◽

Old Friends

Trips by migrant youth to their origin country are seen by institutional actors such as teachers and social workers as disrupting youth’s educational progress, and some European countries have financial and legal consequences when these trips take place during the school year. We follow Ghanaian youth living in The Netherlands on their journeys to Ghana and study how they experience such trips and are affected by them. Trips allow young people to reconnect with family and old friends, recollect memories, and confront them with poverty in their country of origin, making them resilient and motivated when facing adversities in school in the Netherlands. This study investigates how young Ghanaians’ mobility between Ghana and The Netherlands relates to their educational resilience. Based on 20 months of multi-sited ethnographic research following 30 youths of 16–25 age group, we deploy a socio-ecological approach developed in social psychology to identify three resilience-building mechanisms: connection to motivational others, active recollection and comparative confrontation. These mechanisms have to date remained outside of the purview of resilience research and research on migration and education, as these fields focus on the nation-state rather than the transnational context in which young people operate. They thereby ignore mobility patterns that make other contexts relevant to young people’s educational resilience. As such, we expand the socio-ecological model of resilience to include transnational elements and show how mobility can positively relate to education and the resilience of migrant youth.

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