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Gendered Perceptions of Migration Among Ghanaian Children in Transnational Care
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 regi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5688207/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29201253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-016-9407-x |
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author | Cebotari, Victor Mazzucato, Valentina Siegel, Melissa |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-56882072017-11-30 Gendered Perceptions of Migration Among Ghanaian Children in Transnational Care Cebotari, Victor Mazzucato, Valentina Siegel, Melissa Child Indic Res Article 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. Springer Netherlands 2016-07-12 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5688207/ /pubmed/29201253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-016-9407-x Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Cebotari, Victor Mazzucato, Valentina Siegel, Melissa Gendered Perceptions of Migration Among Ghanaian Children in Transnational Care |
title | Gendered Perceptions of Migration Among Ghanaian Children in Transnational Care |
title_full | Gendered Perceptions of Migration Among Ghanaian Children in Transnational Care |
title_fullStr | Gendered Perceptions of Migration Among Ghanaian Children in Transnational Care |
title_full_unstemmed | Gendered Perceptions of Migration Among Ghanaian Children in Transnational Care |
title_short | Gendered Perceptions of Migration Among Ghanaian Children in Transnational Care |
title_sort | gendered perceptions of migration among ghanaian children in transnational care |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5688207/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29201253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-016-9407-x |
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