Cebotari Victor, Mazzucato Valentina, Siegel Melissa
Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, Maastricht University, Boschstraat 24, 6211 AX Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Department of Technology and Society Studies, Maastricht University, Grote Gracht 82, 6211SZ Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Child Indic Res. 2017;10(4):971-993. doi: 10.1007/s12187-016-9407-x. Epub 2016 Jul 12.
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 ( = 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.
本研究实证衡量了留在加纳的男女儿童对父母移民的看法。它分析了2010年在四个外迁率高的城市地区对11至18岁中学生收集的调查数据：大阿克拉地区、库马西、苏尼亚尼和海岸角（n = 1965）。结果表明，儿童对父母移民的看法存在显著的性别差异。具体而言，当父母在国外且婚姻关系稳定时、当被评估的父母在国外但另一方父母是加纳的照顾者时、当照顾安排频繁变化时以及当女童收到汇款时，女童对父母移民的看法更为积极。这些发现并未在男童中得到重现。分析突出了结果对儿童性别的敏感性以及对所分析的儿童跨国生活特征的敏感性。
