Valentina Mazzucato is Professor of Globalisation and Development at Maastricht University. She has been awarded 5 large-scale, international and interdisciplinary research grants to conduct multi-sited research in migrants’ African countries of origin and in communities where they live in European cities. She is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) one of the highest honours conferred to scientists in The Netherlands. She heads interdisciplinary and multicultural...
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ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3008-6541

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • Maastricht University

    University, Maastricht, Netherlands
    Professor

Research

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

Authors Sarah Anschütz, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2022
Journal Name Children's Geographies
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1 Journal Article

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

Authors Laura J. Ogden, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2021
Journal Name JOURNAL OF YOUTH STUDIES
Citations (WoS) 9
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2 Journal Article

Mixed‐method social network analysis for multi‐sited transnational migration research

Authors Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2020
Journal Name Global Networks
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3 Journal Article

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

Authors Joan van Geel, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2020
Journal Name YOUNG
Citations (WoS) 15
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4 Journal Article

Multiple precarity and intimate family life among African-Chinese families in Guangzhou

Authors Lucy Jordan, Andrew Pau Hoang, Cheryl H. K. Chui, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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5 Journal Article

The evolution of migration trajectories of sub-Saharan African migrants in Turkey and Greece: The role of changing social networks and critical events

Authors Marieke Wissink, Franck Düvell, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2020
Journal Name Geoforum
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6 Journal Article

Transnational migration, health and well-being: Nigerian parents in Ireland and the Netherlands

Authors Allen White, Bilisuma B. Dito, Angela Veale, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name Comparative Migration Studies
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7 Journal Article

Moving for a ‘better welfare’? The case of transnational Sudanese families

Authors ESTER SERRA MINGOT, VALENTINA MAZZUCATO
Year 2018
Journal Name Global Networks
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8 Journal Article

Transnational families: Cross‐country comparative perspectives

Authors Valentina Mazzucato, Bilisuma B. Dito
Year 2018
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
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9 Journal Article

African transnational families: Cross‐country and gendered comparisons

Authors Kim Caarls, Valentina Mazzucato, Elisabeth K. Kraus
Year 2018
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
Citations (WoS) 5
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10 Journal Article

Resilience among Nigerian transnational parents in the Netherlands: a strength‐based approach to migration and transnational parenting

Authors LIDEWYDE H. BERCKMOES, VALENTINA MAZZUCATO
Year 2018
Journal Name Global Networks
Citations (WoS) 1
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11 Journal Article

Migration and child health in Moldova and Georgia

Authors Victor Cebotari, Melissa Siegel, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2018
Journal Name Comparative Migration Studies
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12 Journal Article

Providing social protection to mobile populations: symbiotic relationships between migrants and welfare institutions

Authors Ester Serra Mingot, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 1
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13 Journal Article

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

Authors Victor Cebotari, Valentina Mazzucato, Ernest Appiah
Year 2018
Journal Name Child Development
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14 Journal Article

In transit: Changing social networks of sub-Saharan African migrants in Turkey and Greece

Authors Marieke Wissink, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2018
Journal Name Social Networks
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15 Journal Article

Conceptualising youth mobility trajectories: thinking beyond conventional categories

Authors Joan van Geel, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 7
16 Journal Article

Gendered Perceptions of Migration Among Ghanaian Children in Transnational Care

Authors Victor Cebotari, Valentina Mazzucato, Melissa Siegel
Year 2017
Journal Name Child Indicators Research
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17 Journal Article

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

Authors Valentina Mazzucato, Ernestina Dankyi, Miranda Poeze
Year 2017
Book Title Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins
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18 Book Chapter

The Effects of Transnational Parenting on the Subjective Health and Well-Being of Ghanaian Migrants in the Netherlands

Authors Bilisuma B. Dito, Valentina Mazzucato, Djamila Schans
Year 2017
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
Citations (WoS) 5
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19 Journal Article

Psychological Well-being of Ghanaian Children in Transnational Families

Authors Valentina Mazzucato, Victor Cebotari
Year 2017
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
Citations (WoS) 10
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20 Journal Article

Transnational parenting and the well-being of Angolan migrant parents in Europe

Authors Valentina Mazzucato, Jeanne Vivet, Bilisuma B. Dito, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Global Networks
Citations (WoS) 4
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21 Journal Article

Navigating transnational childcare relationships: migrant parents and their children's caregivers in the origin country

Authors Miranda Poeze, Valentina Mazzucato, Ernestina K. Dankyi
Year 2017
Journal Name Global Networks
Citations (WoS) 7
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22 Journal Article

Mobile Populations in Immobile Welfare Systems: A Typology of Institutions Providing Social Welfare and Protection Within a Mobility Framework

Authors Ester Serra Mingot, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2017
Journal Name Mobile Populations in Immobile Welfare Systems: A Typology of Institutions Providing Social Welfare and Protection Within a Mobility Framework
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23 Journal Article

Child Development and Migrant Transnationalism: The Health of Children Who Stay Behind in Ghana and Nigeria

Authors Victor Cebotari, Valentina Mazzucato, Melissa Siegel
Year 2017
Journal Name The Journal of Development Studies
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24 Journal Article

Reciprocity in global social protection: providing care for migrants’ children

Authors Ernestina Dankyi, Valentina Mazzucato, Takyiwaa Manuh
Year 2017
Journal Name Oxford Development Studies
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25 Journal Article

Transnational relationships and reunification

Authors Kim Caarls, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2016
Journal Name Demographic Research
Citations (WoS) 3
26 Journal Article

Migration and the education of children who stay behind in Moldova and Georgia

Authors Victor Cebotari, Melissa Siegel, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2016
Journal Name International Journal of Educational Development
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27 Journal Article

Reunifying versus Living Apart Together across Borders: A Comparative Analysis of sub-Saharan Migration to Europe

Authors Cris Beauchemin, Valentina Mazzucato, Pau Baizan, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 15
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28 Journal Article

Transnational Families between Africa and Europe

Authors Valentina Mazzucato, Djamila Schans, Cris Beauchemin, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 19
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29 Journal Article

Educational performance of children of migrant parents in Ghana, Nigeria and Angola

Authors Victor Cebotari, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2015
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 8
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30 Journal Article

Theorising Chance: Capturing the Role of Ad Hoc Social Interactions in Migrants' Trajectories

Authors Nataliia Gladkova, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2015
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
Citations (WoS) 2
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31 Journal Article

Transnational families and the subjective well-being of migrant parents: Angolan and Nigerian parents in the Netherlands

Authors Valentina Mazzucato, Bilisuma B. Dito
Year 2015
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 5
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32 Journal Article

'Left behind' but not left alone: Parental migration & the psychosocial health of children in Moldova

Authors Michaella Vanore, Valentina Mazzucato, Melissa Siegel
Year 2015
Journal Name Social Science & Medicine
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33 Journal Article

Transnational families and the well-being of children and caregivers who stay in origin countries Introduction

Authors Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2015
Journal Name Social Science & Medicine
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34 Journal Article

International parental migration and the psychological well-being of children in Ghana, Nigeria, and Angola

Authors Valentina Mazzucato, Victor Cebotari, Angela Veale, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name Social Science & Medicine
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35 Journal Article

La migration internationale est-elle un facteur de divorce ? Les couples ghanéens au Ghana et à l’étranger

Authors Kim Caarls, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2015
Journal Name Population
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36 Journal Article

The Quality of Parent–Child Relationships in Transnational Families: Angolan and Nigerian Migrant Parents in The Netherlands

Authors Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2014
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 18
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37 Journal Article

Remittances and Household Wealth after Conflict: A Case Study on Urban Burundi

Authors Sonja Fransen, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2014
Journal Name World Development
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38 Journal Article

Transnational Families and the Well-Being of Children: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges

Authors Valentina Mazzucato, Djamila Schans
Year 2011
Journal Name Journal of Marriage and Family
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39 Journal Article

Reverse remittances in the migration–development nexus: two‐way flows between Ghana and the Netherlands

Authors Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2010
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
Citations (WoS) 58
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40 Journal Article

The Role of Support Networks in the Initial Stages of Integration: The Case of West African Newcomers in the Netherlands

Authors Magali Chelpi-den Hamer, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2010
Journal Name International Migration
Citations (WoS) 7
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41 Journal Article

CONSTRUCTING HOMES, BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS: MIGRANT INVESTMENTS IN HOUSES

Authors LOTHAR SMITH, VALENTINA MAZZUCATO
Year 2009
Journal Name Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
Citations (WoS) 31
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42 Journal Article

Small is beautiful: the micro‐politics of transnational relationships between Ghanaian hometown associations and communities back home

Authors VALENTINA MAZZUCATO, MIRJAM KABKI
Year 2009
Journal Name Global Networks
Citations (WoS) 18
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43 Journal Article

Remittances in Ghana: Origin, Destination and Issues of Measurement

Authors Valentina Mazzucato, Bart Van Den Boom, N.N.N. Nsowah‐Nuamah
Year 2008
Journal Name International Migration
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45 Journal Article

Africa < > Europe: A Double Engagement

Authors Ralph Grillo, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2008
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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46 Journal Article

The Double Engagement: Transnationalism and Integration. Ghanaian Migrants’ Lives Between Ghana and The Netherlands

Authors Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2008
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 70
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47 Journal Article

‘Wo benanϵ a ϵyϵ bebree’: the economic impact of remittances of Netherlands‐based Ghanaian migrants on rural Ashanti

Authors Mirjam Kabki, Valentina Mazzucato, Ernest Appiah
Year 2004
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
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48 Journal Article

Moving beyond indigenous soil taxonomies: local theories of soils for sustainable development

Authors David Niemeijer, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2003
Journal Name Geoderma
50 Journal Article

Population Growth and the Environment in Africa: Local Informal Institutions, the Missing Link*

Authors Valentina Mazzucato, David Niemeijer
Year 2002
Journal Name Economic Geography
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51 Journal Article

Soil Degradation in the West African Sahel: How Serious Is It?

Authors David Niemeijer, Vaientina Mazzucato
Year 2002
Journal Name Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development
52 Journal Article

The Cultural Economy of Soil and Water Conservation: Market Principles and Social Networks in Eastern Burkina Faso

Authors Valentina Mazzucato, David Niemeijer
Year 2000
Journal Name Development and Change
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53 Journal Article

Transnational Migration and the Economy of Funerals: Changing Practices in Ghana

Authors Valentina Mazzucato, Mirjam Kabki, Lothar Smith
Year 2006
Journal Name Development and Change
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54 Journal Article

Suggested Research

Diversifying analytical categories for studying youth with and without migration background: an example of mobility-based categories

Authors Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2024
Journal Name Comparative Migration Studies
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1 Journal Article

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

Authors Sarah Anschütz, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2022
Journal Name Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education
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2 Journal Article

Doing and contesting borderwork in Senegal: local implementers of migration information campaigns

Authors Cecilia Schenetti, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2024
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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3 Journal Article

Transnational youth mobility: new categories for migrant youth research

Authors Valentina Mazzucato, Karlijn Haagsman
Year 2022
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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4 Journal Article

Pacing mobility trajectories: Temporality and agency in ‘home’ visits by migrant youth

Authors Sarah Anschütz, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2024
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
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5 Journal Article

Gendered Transnational Parenting

Authors Karlijn Haagsman, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2021
Book Title The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Migration
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6 Book Chapter

The well-being of stay behind family members in migrant households

Authors Karlijn Haagsman, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2020
Book Title Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development
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7 Book Chapter

“I could have married in Europe, if I wanted to” How black migrant men challenge moralizing and racializing discourses when returning to Senegal

Authors Karlien Strijbosch, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2024
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
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8 Journal Article

Transnational Mothers and the Law: Ghanaian Women’s Pathways to Family Reunion and Consequences for Family Life

Authors Valentina Mazzucato, Miranda Poeze
Book Title Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility
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9 Book Chapter

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

Authors Laura J. Ogden, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2021
Journal Name Mobilities
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10 Journal Article

Women’s social resilience in the context of male out-migration in Dehradun district, India

Authors Federica Cagliani, Federica Cagliani, Valentina Mazzucato, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
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11 Journal Article

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

Authors Valentina Mazzucato, Bilisuma Dito, Karlijn Haagsman
Year 2023
Book Title Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle
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12 Book Chapter

Performing return: victims, criminals or heroes? Senegalese male returnees engaging with the stigma of deportation

Authors Karlien Strijbosch, Valentina Mazzucato, Ulrike Brunotte
Year 2023
Journal Name Gender, Place &amp; Culture
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13 Journal Article

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

Authors Onallia Esther Osei, Valentina Mazzucato, Karlijn Haagsman
Year 2023
Book Title Handbook of Transnational Families Around the World
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14 Book Chapter

Aspiring While Waiting: Temporality and Pacing of Ghanaian Stayer Youth’s Migration Aspirations

Authors Onallia Esther Osei, Valentina Mazzucato, Karlijn Haagsman
Year 2022
Journal Name Social Inclusion
Citations (WoS) 2
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15 Journal Article

Overcoming interruptions in educational trajectories: Youth in Ghana with international migrant parents

Authors Onallia Esther Osei, Karlijn Haagsman, Valentina Mazzucato
Year 2022
Journal Name Global Networks
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16 Journal Article

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

Authors Gladys Akom Ankobrey, Valentina Mazzucato, Lauren B. Wagner
Year 2021
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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17 Journal Article

‘Why Are You Not Crying?’

Authors Gladys Akom Ankobrey, Valentina Mazzucato, Lauren B. Wagner
Year 2021
Journal Name African Diaspora
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18 Journal Article

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

Authors Valentina Mazzucato, Gladys Akom Ankobrey, Sarah Anschütz, ...
Year 2022
Book Title (Re)Mapping Migration and Education: Centering Methods and Methodologies
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19 Book Chapter

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

Authors Valentina Mazzucato, Gladys Akom Ankobrey, Sarah Anschütz, ...
Year 2022
Book Title (Re)Mapping Migration and Education
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20 Book Chapter
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