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

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dc.contributor.authorDankyi, E.
dc.contributor.authorMazzucato, V.
dc.contributor.authorManuh, T.
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-16T09:14:55Z
dc.date.available2019-01-16T09:14:55Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractMigration research tends to conceptualize migrants as providers of social protection for people back home. Yet the care conducted within transnational families and the way it is organized is an integral part of a global social protection system which is based on reciprocity between migrants and their families in their home countries. This system relies on the work of people back home just as much as on the remittances of migrants overseas. Drawing on ethnographic data from 34 caregivers, we provide a detailed description of the work conducted by people in Ghana to care for migrants’ children and analyze what caregivers do to make this work possible. We find that caregivers have small networks of support they can rely on and identify the strategies they develop when remittances are not forthcoming or enough to cater for the material needs of migrants’ children.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), WOTRO Science for Development Division [grant number W01.65.316].en_US
dc.identifier.citationErnestina Dankyi, Valentina Mazzucato & Takyiwaa Manuh (2017) Reciprocity in global social protection: providing care for migrants’ children, Oxford Development Studies, 45:1, 80-95, DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2015.1124078en_US
dc.identifier.otherDOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2015.1124078
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/26837
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.subjecttransnational careen_US
dc.subjectmigrationen_US
dc.subjectcaregiversen_US
dc.subjectglobal social protectionen_US
dc.subjectreciprocal relationsen_US
dc.subjectGhanaen_US
dc.titleReciprocity in global social protection: providing care for migrants’ childrenen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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