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

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Transnational ties
  • Family size and structure

• Migration forms

  • Transnational migration
  • Internal migration
  • Multiple migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Family relations and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration

Migration governance

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Belgium
  • Ghana