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Physical Health of African Migrant Children, Youths and Families

  • Akombi, B. J., Agho, K. E., Hall, J. J., Merom, D., Astell-Burt, T., & Renzaho, A. M. (2017). Stunting and severe stunting among children under-5 years in Nigeria: A multilevel analysis. BMC Pediatrics, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-016-0770-z
  • Akombi, B. J., Agho, K. E., Merom, D., Renzaho, A. M., & Hall, J. J. (2017). Child malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: A meta-analysis of demographic and health surveys (2006-2016). PLOS ONE, 12(5), e0177338. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177338
  • Akombi, B., Agho, K., Hall, J., Wali, N., Renzaho, A., & Merom, D. (2017). Stunting, wasting and underweight in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(8), 863. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14080863
  • Akombi, B., Agho, K., Merom, D., Hall, J., & Renzaho, A. (2017). Multilevel analysis of factors associated with wasting and underweight among children under-five years in Nigeria. Nutrients, 9(1), 44. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu9010044
  • Fouche, C., Kenealy, T, Mace, J. & Shaw, John. (2014). Practitioner perspectives from seven health professional groups on core competencies in the context of chronic care. Journal of Interprofessional Care. 28(6), 534-540.
  • Fouche, C., Richter, S., Vallianatos, H., Mason, A., Fernandez-Sanchez, H., Mazzucato, V., Kariwo, M., & Salami, B. (Accepted). African immigrant child health: A scoping review. Journal of Migration and Health.
  • Griffith, M., Mellor, D., Green, J., & Renzaho, A. M. (2014). Migration-related influences on obesity among sub-Saharan African migrant adolescents in Melbourne, Australia. Nutrition & Dietetics, 71(4), 252-257. https://doi.org/10.1111/1747-0080.12135
  • Haultain, L., Fouche, C., Frost, H., & Moodley. S. (2016). Walking the tight rope: Women’s health social workers’ role with vulnerable families in the maternity context, Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 28(2), 64–74. 
  • Henrickson, M., Brown, D.B., Fouché, C., Poindexter, C.C. & Scott, K. (2013). “Just Talking About It Opens Your Heart”: Meaning-Making By Black African Migrants And Refugees Living With HIV. Culture, Health & Sexuality: An International Journal for Research, Intervention and Care, 15(8), 910-923.
  • Henrickson, M., Fouché, C., Poindexter, C.C., Brown, D.B., & Scott, K. (2014). Host country responses to Black African migrants and refugees living with HIV. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work Review, 26 (4), 25-36.
  • Mason, A., Salami, B., Salma, K., Yohani, S, Amin, M., Okeke-Ihejirika, P., Ladha, T. (2020). Health information seeking among immigrants in Western Canada. Journal of Paediatric Nursing, 58, 9-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2020.11.009
  • Natoli, L., Renzaho, A. M., & Rinaudo, T. (2008). Reducing harmful traditional practices in Adjibar, Ethiopia: Lessons learned from the Adjibar safe motherhood project. Contemporary Nurse, 29(1), 110-119. https://doi.org/10.5172/conu.673.29.1.110
  • Renzaho, A. M. (2004). Fat, rich and beautiful: Changing socio-cultural paradigms associated with obesity risk, nutritional status and refugee children from sub-Saharan Africa. Health & Place, 10(1), 105-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1353-8292(03)00051-0
  • Renzaho, A. M., Swinburn, B., & Burns, C. (2008). Maintenance of traditional cultural orientation is associated with lower rates of obesity and sedentary behaviours among African migrant children to Australia. International Journal of Obesity, 32(4), 594-600. https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2008.2
  • Renzaho, A., & Burns, C. (2003). Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition. More, more, more: food, fat and African refugee and migrant children, 12, 56.
  • Renzaho, A., Gibbons, C., Swinburn, B., Jolley, D., & Burns, C. (2006). Obesity and undernutrition in sub-Saharan African immigrant and refugee children in Victoria, Australia. Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 15(4), 482-490.
  • Renzaho, A., Nowson, C., Kaur, A., Halliday, J., Fong, D., & DeSilva, J. (2011). Prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency and risk factors for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease among African migrant and refugee adults in Melbourne. Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition, 20(30), 397-403. http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30036933
  • Renzaho, A., Swinburn, B., Lo, S., Mellor, D., & Green, J. (2009). Obesity and its Risk Factors Among African Migrant Adolescents: Assessing the Role of Intergenerational Acculturation Gap, Family Functioning and Parenting. The Victorian Health Promotion Foundation. http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30032205
  • Salami B, Fernandez-Sanchez H, Fouche C, Evans C, Sibeko L, Tulli M, Bulaong A, Kwankye SO, Ani-Amponsah M, Okeke-Ihejirika P, Gommaa H, Agbemenu K, Ndikom CM, Richter S. A scoping review of the health of African immigrant and refugee children. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021; 18(7):3514. doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073514.
  • Salami, B., Iwuagwu, S., Amodu, O., Tulli, M., Ndikom, C., Gommaa, H., Lavin, T., & Kariwo, M. (2020). The health of internally displaced children in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review. British Medical Journal Global Health, 5(8), doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002584
  • Salami, B., Mason, A., Salma, J., Yohani, S., Amin, M., Okeke-Ihejirika, P., & Ladha, T. (2020). Access to healthcare for immigrant children in Canada. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(9), 3320. 10.3390/ijerph17093320
  • Spencer, G., Smith, M., Hoare, K., Fouche, C. & Thompson, J. (2020). Health experiences of child migrants in the Western Pacific Region. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2020.1776739
  • Spencer, G., Smith, M., Thompson, J., Fairbrother, H., Hoare, K., Fouché, C., & Curtis, P. (2019). Health experiences of children and young people who migrate – Opportunities for health education. Health Education Journal,78(1), 96–107. https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896918786767
  • Spencer, G., Thompson, J., Smith, M., Fairbrother H., Hoare K., Fouche, C. & Curtis P. (2019). Health experiences of children who migrate – Opportunities for health education. Health Education Journal, 78 (1), 96-107.
  • Thomas, K.J.A 2004: “Disability among the children of migrants in South Africa”, African Population Studies 19(2) Sup. B. 139-164
  • Thompson, J., Fairbrother, H., Curtis, P., Spencer, G., Smith, M., Hoare K., Fouche, C. (2019). Promoting the health of children and young people who migrate: Reflections from four regional reviews. Global Health Promotion. https://doi.org/10.1177/1757975919888452
  • Thompson, J., Fairbrother, H., Spencer, G., Curtis, P., Fouché, C., Hoare, K., Hogan, D., O’Riordan, J., Salami, B., Smith, M., Taylor, B. & Whitakker, V. (2019). Promoting the health of children and young people who migrate: reflections from four regional reviews. Global Health Promotion. doi: 10.1177/1757975919888452
  • Urale, P.W.B., O’Brien, M.A. & Fouche, C.B. (2018). The relationship between ethnicity and fertility in New Zealand. Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online. doi: 10.1080/1177083X.2018.1534746.

Mental Health of African Migrant Children and Youths

  • Abdi S. (2018). Mental Health of Migrant Children. Global Public Health. http://publichealth.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190632366.001.0001/acrefore-9780190632366-e-12?rskey=DDwisu&result=1
  • Bailey, A., Clarke, J., & Salami, B. (2015). Race-based stigma as a determinant of access and support in black mothers’ experience of loss to gun violence. In Soheila Pashang & Sheila Gruner. Roots and routes of displacement and trauma: From analysis to advocacy and policy to practice. Ontario, Canada: Rock’s Mills Press.
  • Betancourt, T.S., Abdi, S., Ito, B., Lilienthal, G.M., Agalab, N., & Ellis, H. (2015). We Left One War and Came to Another: Resource Loss, Acculturative Stress, and Caregiver-Child Relationships in Somali Refugee Families. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology. 21(1):114-125.
  • Bolton, P., Bass, J., Betancourt, T.S., Speelman, L., Onyango, G., Clougherty, K., Neugebauer, R., Murray, L., & Verdeli, H. (2007). Interventions for depression symptoms among adolescent survivors of war and displacement in northern Uganda: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of the American Medical Association, 298(5):519-527
  • Clauss-Ehlers, C.S., & Akinsulure-Smith, A.M. (2013). Working with forced migrant children and their families: Mental health, developmental, legal, and linguistic considerations in the context of school-based mental health services. In C. Clauss-Ehlers, Z. Serpell, & M. Weist (Eds.), Handbook of culturally responsive school mental health: Advancing research, training, practice, and policy (pp. 135-146). New York: Springer.
  • Ellis, B. H., Abdi, S. M., & Winer, J. P. (2020). Mental health practice with immigrant and refugee youth: A socioecological framework. American Psychology Association.
  • Mazzucato, V. and V. Cebotari (2016) Psychological well-being of Ghanaian children in transnational families. Population, Space and Place. DOI: 10.1002/psp.2004
  • Mazzucato, V., V. Cebotari, A. Veale, A. White, M. Grassi, J. Vivet (2015) International parental migration and the psychological well-being of children in Ghana, Nigeria, and Angola. Social Science and Medicine 132 (2015), 215–224. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.058
  • Salami, B. et al. (2020). A participatory action research project to promote the mental health of African, Black and Caribbean youth in Alberta. Submitted to Policywise for Children and Families. Available at https://policywise.com/wp-content/uploads/resources/2020/03/2020-03MAR-24-Final-Report-17SM-Salami_.pdf
  • Thulin, E.J., McLean, K., Sevalie, S., Akinsulure-Smith, A.M., & Betancourt, T.S. (in press). Mental Health Problems among Children in Sierra Leone: Assessing Cultural Concepts of Distress. Journal of Transcultural Psychiatry.
  • Verdeli, H., Clougherty, K., Onyango, G., Lewandowski, E., Speelman, L., Betancourt, T.S., Neugebauer, R., Stein, T.R., & Bolton, P. (2008). Group interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed youth in IDP camps in northern Uganda: Adaptation and training. Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 17(3):605-624.
  • Yohani, S., & E, N. (n.d.). Migration, mental health, and refugee youth in Africa and African diaspora [Paper presentation].

General Social Wellbeing of African Migrant Children, Youths and Families

  • Cyril, S., Halliday, J., Green, J., & Renzaho, A. (2016). Relationship between body mass index and family functioning, family communication, family type and parenting style among African migrant parents and children in Victoria, Australia: A parent-child dyad study. BMC Public Health, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3394-1
  • Dankyi, E., V. Mazzucato and T. Manuh (2016) Global social protection as a reciprocal process: The work of caregivers in providing care for migrants’ children. Oxford Development Studies 45(1): 80-95. DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2015.112407
  • Green, J., Williamson, L., Eisenbruch, M., Renzaho, A., Waters, E., & Oberklaid, F. (2008). Families, communities and culture: Health promotion with newly-arrived African communities in Victoria. Department of Human Services.
  • Kwankye, S.O. (2010). The Social and Reproductive Health Implications of Independent North-South Child Migration in Ghana. Research Review. NS 26.2, 19-27.
  • Kwankye, S.O. (2012). Transition into adulthood: experiences of return independent child migrants in northern Ghana. Omnes The Journal of Multicultural Society. Vol.3 No.1, pp. 1-24
  • Landale, N., Thomas, K.J.A., and Van Hook, J 2011 “The living arrangements of the children of immigrants”, Future of Children, 21(1): 43-70
  • Mugadza, H. T., Akombi, B. J., Tetteh, V. W., Stout, B., & Renzaho, A. M. (2020). Engaging sub-Saharan African migrant families in Australia: Broadening definitions of family, community, and culture. Community, Work & Family, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2020.1752621
  • Salami, B., Okeke-Ihejirika, P., Yohani, S., Vallianatos, H., Ayalew, T., Nsaliwa, C., Alaazi, D., & Mohamud, H. (2017). African immigrant child and family well being in Alberta: First stakeholder meeting proceedings. Submitted to stakeholders in Alberta including the Women and Children’s Health Research Institute.
  • Thomas, K.J.A. 2012 “Migration, household configurations, and the well-being of adolescent orphans in Rwanda”, Population Research and Policy Review, 31(4): 587-607

Resilience of African Migrant Children, Migrant Youths and Families

  • Akinsulure-Smith, A.M., Jones, W. L., & Dachos, N. (2013). Nah We Yone’s De Fambul Camp: Facilitating resilience in displaced African children. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 11(3), 221-240. DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2013.801721.
  • Frounfelker, R., Assefa, M., Smith, E., Abdirahmana, A., & Betancourt, T.S. (2017). “We would never forget who we are”: Resettlement Stress, Family Functioning, and Resilience among Somali Bantu Refugee Youth. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 26(11),1387-1400
  • Haagsman, K., & V. Mazzucato (2020). The Well-being of stay behind family members in migrant households. In T. Bastia & R. Skeldon (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development, p. 181-190. London: Routledge.
  • Kwankye, S.O., Anarfi, J.K., Tagoe, C.A., and Castaldo, A. (2009). Coping Strategies of Independent Child Migrants from Northern Ghana to Southern Cities”. Rural-Urban Migration: Trends, Challenges and Strategies, edited by Rajagopalan, `The Icfai University Press, India, pp.171-197
  • Kwankye, S.O., Anarfi, J.K., Tagoe, C.A., and Castaldo, A. (2009). “Independent North-South Child Migration in Ghana: The Decision-Making Process”. Sussex Centre for Migration Research Working Paper T-29. February.
  • Rasmussen, A., Chu, T., Akinsulure-Smith, A.M., & Keatley, E. (2013). The social ecology of resolving family conflict among West African immigrants in New York: A grounded theory approach. American Journal of Community Psychology, 52(1-2), 185-196. DOI: 10.1007/s10464-013-9588-0.
  • Schoumaker, B., M.L. Flahaux, C. Beauchemin, D. Schans, V. Mazzucato, and P. Sakho (2018) African migration: Diversity and changes. Beauchemin, C. (Ed.) Migration between Africa and Europe, p. 35-79. Dordrecht: Springer Open.
  • Zuilkowski, S.S., Collet, K., Jambai, M., Akinsulure-Smith, A.M., & Betancourt, T.S. (2016). Youth resilience in post-conflict settings: An intervention for war-affected youth in Sierra Leone. Human Development, 59, 64-80. DOI: 10.1159/000448227.

War Affected African Migrant Children and Parents

  • American Psychological Association (2010). Resilience and recovery after war: Refugee children and families in the United States. Report of the APA Task Force on the Psychosocial Effects of War on Children and Families who are Refugees from Armed Conflict Residing in the United States. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Retrieved from: http://www.apa.org/pi/families/refugees.aspx (Member of the APA Task Force).
  • Betancourt T.S., Berent, J. M., Freeman, J., Frounfelker, R.L., Brennan R.T., Abdi, S., Maalim, A., Abdi, A., Mishra, T., Gautam, B., Creswell, J.W., & Beardslee, W.R. (2019). Family-Based Mental Health Promotion for Somali Bantu and Bhutanese Refugees: Feasibility and Acceptability Trial. Journal of Adolescent Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.08.023
  • Betancourt, T.S., Frounfelker, R., Mishra, T., Hussein, A., & Falzarano, R. (2015). Addressing Health Disparities in the Mental Health of Refugee Children and Adolescents through Community-Based Participatory Research: A Study in 2 Communities. American Journal of Public Health, 3, s475-s482.
  • Betancourt, T.S., Newnham, E.A., Hann, K., McBain, R.K., Akinsulure-Smith, A.M., Weisz, J.R., Lilienthal, G.M., & Hansen, N.B. (2014). Addressing the consequences of violence and adversity: The development of a group mental health intervention for war-affected youth in Sierra Leone. In J. Raynaud, M. Hodes, & S.S. Gau (Eds.), From research to practice in child and adolescent mental health (pp. 157-178). New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Betancourt, T.S., Speelman, L., Onyango, G., & Bolton, P. (2009). A qualitative study of mental health problems among children displaced by war in northern Uganda. Journal of Transcultural Psychiatry, 46(2):238-256.
  • Ellis, B.H., Hulland, E.N., Miller, A.B., Barrett Bixby, C., Lopes Cardozo, B., Betancourt, T.S. (2016). Mental Health Risks and Resilience among Somali and Bhutanese Refugee Parents. Migration Policy Institute.
  • Frounkfelker, R., Miconi, D., Farrar, J., Brooks M.A., Rousseau, C., Betancourt, T.S. (2020) Mental Health of Refugee Children and Youth: Epidemiology, Interventions, and Future Directions. Annual Review of Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-040119-094230
  • Hirani, S., Richter, S., & Salami, B. (2020). Humanitarian Aid and Breastfeeding Practices of Displaced Mothers: A Qualitative Study in Disaster Relief Camps. Eastern Mediterranean Journal. Available at http://www.emro.who.int/in-press/research/humanitarian-aid-and-breastfeeding-practices-of-displaced-mothers-a-qualitative-study-in-disaster-relief-camps.html
  • Newnham, E.A., McBain, R.K., Hann, K., Akinsulure-Smith, A.M., Weisz, J., Lilienthal, G.M., Hansen, N., & Betancourt, T.S. (2015). The Youth Readiness Intervention for war-affected youth. Journal of Adolescent Health, 56(6), 606-611. DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.01.02

Educational and Economic Outcomes of African Migrant Children, Migrant Youths and their Families

  • Cebotari, V. and V. Mazzucato (2016) Educational performance of children of migrant parents in Ghana, Nigeria and Angola. Journal of Ethic and Migration Studies 42(5); 834-856. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2015.1125777
  • Kwankye, S.O. (2011). Independent North–South Child Migration as a Parental Investment in Northern Ghana. Population, Space and Place. Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/psp.682.
  • Thomas, K.J.A 2010 “Household context, generational status, and English proficiency among the children of African Immigrants in the US”, International Migration Review, 44(10): 142-172
  • Thomas, K.J.A. 2011 “Familial influences on child poverty in Black immigrant, US-born Black, and non-Black Immigrant Families”, Demography 48(2): 437-460
  • Thomas, K.J.A. 2012 “Migration processes, family contexts, and schooling dropout among Black youth”; Demography, 49(2): 477-498
  • Van Geel, van J. and V. Mazzucato (2018) Conceptualising youth mobility trajectories: Thinking beyond conventional categories. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44(13): 2144-2162. Doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2017.1409107

Race, Racism and Racialization: Experience of African Migrant Children and Youths

  • Bartley, A., Beddoe, L., Duke, J., Fouché, C., Harington. P.R.J. & Shah, R. (2011). Crossing Borders: Key Features of Migrant Social Workers in New Zealand. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work. 23 (3), 16-30.
  • Beddoe, L., Fouché, C., Bartley, A., & Harington. P. (2011). Migrant Social Workers’ Experience in New Zealand: Education and Supervision Issues. Social Work Education, 31(8),1012-1031.
  • Ellis, B. H., Lincoln, A. K., Abdi, S. M., Nimmons, E. A., Issa, O., & Decker, S. H. (2018). “We All Have Stories” Black Muslim Immigrants’ Experience with the Police. Race and Justice, 2153368718754638.
  • Fouché, C., Beddoe, L., Bartley, A., & de Haan, I. (2014). Enduring professional dislocation: Migrant social workers’ perceptions of their professional roles. British Journal of Social Work, 44 (7), 2004-2022.
  • Poindexter, C.C., Henrickson, M., Fouché, C., Brown, D.B., & Scott, K. (2013). “They Don’t Even Greet You:” HIV Stigma And Diagnosis Disclosure Experienced By HIV-Positive African Immigrants And Refugees In New Zealand. Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services, 12(1), 44–65.
  • Thomas, K.J.A. 2007: “Child mortality and Socioeconomic Status: Differences among immigrants and the native-born in South Africa”, International Migration Review, 41(1) 40-74
  • Thomas, K.J.A. 2012 “Race and enrollment disparities among the children of immigrants: An examination of differences between the children of Black and White Africans”; International Migration Review. 26(1), 37-60.

Transnationalism and Wellbeing of African Migrant Children and Youths

  • Caarls, K., K. Haagsman, E. Kraus, V. Mazzucato (2018) African transnational families: Cross-country and gendered comparisons. Population Space and Place 24(7) Doi: 10.1002/psp.2165
  • Caarls, K., V. Mazzucato, D. Schans, P. Quartey, C. Addoquaye Tagoe (2018) Transnational families between Ghana, the Netherlands and the UK. Beauchemin, C. (Ed.) Migration between Africa and Europe, p. 319-360. Dordrecht: Springer Open.
  • Cebotari, V., Mazzucato, V. and M. Siegel (2016) Child development and migrant transnationalism: The health of children who stay behind in Ghana and Nigeria. The Journal of Development Studies 53(3): 444-459. DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2016.1187723 [0.896]
  • Cebotari, V., V. Mazzucato and E. Appiah (2017) A longitudinal analysis of well-being of Ghanaian children in transnational families. Child Development DOI:10.1111/cdev.12879
  • Cebotari, V., V. Mazzucato, M. Siegel (2016) Gendered perceptions of migration among Ghanaian children in transnational care. Child Indicators Research DOI: 10.1007/s12187-016-9407-x
  • Dito, B., V. Mazzucato and D. Schans (2016) The effects of transnational parenting on the subjective health and well-being of Ghanaian migrants in The Netherlands. Population, Space and Place. DOI: 10.1002/psp.2006
  • Haagsman, K., V. Mazzucato, and B. Dito (2015) Transnational families and the subjective well-being of migrant parents: Angolan and Nigerian parents in The Netherlands. Ethnic and Racial Studies 38 (15): 1-20 DOI:10.1080/01419870.2015.1037783
  • Laczko, F., Black, J. and Singleton, A, (2019) (eds), ‘Fatal Journeys 4: Missing Migrant Children’. IOM
  • Mazzucato V. (2011) Guest editor: Researching the effects of transnational families on children’s wellbeing. Journal of Marriage and Family 73 (4).
  • Mazzucato, V. & J. van Geel (2020). Transnational young people: growing up and being active in a transnational social field. In B. Yeoh (Eds.) Handbook of Transnationalism. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Mazzucato, V. (2009) Bridging boundaries with a transnational research approach: A simultaneous matched sample methodology. In M. A. Falzon (ed) Multi-sited Ethnography: Theory, Praxis and Locality in Contemporary Social Research, pp. 215-232. Hampshire: Ashgate.
  • Mazzucato, V. (2013) Transnational families. In Ness, I. (ed) The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
  • Mazzucato, V. (2014) Child well-being and transnational families. In Michalos, A. (ed) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-being Research, p. 749-755. Dordrecht: Springer.
  • Mazzucato, V. (2020) Mixed-method Social Network Analysis for multi-sited transnational migration research. Global Networks-a Journal of Transnational Affairs
  • Mazzucato, V. and B. Dito (2018) Transnational families: Cross-country comparative perspectives. Population Space and Place 24(7) Doi: 10.1002/psp.2165
  • Mazzucato, V. and D. Schans (2011) Transnational families and the well-being of children: Conceptual and methodological challenges. Journal of Marriage and Family 73 (4): 04 – 712.
  • Mazzucato, V., D. Schans, K. Caarls, and C. Beauchemin (2015) Transnational families between Africa and Europe. International Migration Review 49 (1): 142-172
  • Poeze, M, E. Dankyi and V. Mazzucato (2016) Navigating transnational childcare relationships: Migrant parents and their children’s caregivers in the origin country. Global Networks. DOI 10.1111/glob.12135
  • Poeze, M. and V. Mazzucato (2014) Ghanaian children in transnational families: Understanding the experiences of left-behind children through local parenting norms. In L. Baldassar and L. Merla (eds) Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care, pp. 149-169. London: Routledge.
  • Poeze, M. and V. Mazzucato (2016) Transnational mothers and the law: Ghanaian women’s pathways to family reunion and consequences for family life. Kilkey, M. and E. Palenga-Möllenbeck (Eds.) Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility: Global Perspectives through the Life Course, p.187-211. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Smith, M., Spencer, G., Fouche, C. & Hoare K. (2021). Understanding child and youth migrant wellbeing: Reflections from a systematic literature review in the Western Pacific region. Wellbeing, Space and Society, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2021.100053
  • Spencer, G., Dankyi, E., Kwankye, S. & Thompson, J. (2021). Children and young people who migrate – representing and (re)producing vulnerabilities through research.
  • Spencer, G., Dankyi, E., Kwankye, S. & Thompson, J. (2021). Children and young people who migrate – representing and (re)producing vulnerabilities through research. In G. Spencer (editor). Ethics and Integrity in Research with Children and Young People. Emerald Publishing. pp. 183-198.
  • van Geel, J., & Mazzucato, V. (2020). Building educational resilience through transnational mobility trajectories: Young people between Ghana and the Netherlands. YOUNG, 1103308820940184.

Family Policies and Migration as it relates to African Migrant Children and Youths

  • Akinsulure-Smith, A.M., & Smith, H. (2012). Evolution of family policies in post-conflict Sierra Leone. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 21, 4-13. DOI: 10.1007/s10826-011-9495-7.
  • Akinsulure-Smith, A.M., & Smith, H. (2014). Emerging family policies in Sierra Leone. In M. Robila (Ed.), Family policies across the globe (pp. 15-29). New York: Springer.
  • Beauchemin, C., J. Nappa, B. Schoumaker, P. Baizan, A. Gonzalez-Ferrer, K. Caarls, and V. Mazzucato (2015) Reunifying versus living apart together across borders: A comparative analysis of Sub-Saharan migration to Europe. International Migration Review 48 (4): 173-199
  • Beauchemin, C., K. Caarls, and V. Mazzucato (2018) Senegalese families between here and there. Beauchemin, C. (Ed.) Migration between Africa and Europe, p. 423-453. Dordrecht: Springer Open.
  • Beauchemin, C., K. Caarls, J. Nappa, V. Mazzucato, B. Schoumaker, J. Mangalu (2018) Migration and family life between Congo and Europe. Beauchemin, C. (Ed.) Migration between Africa and Europe, p. 239-261. Dordrecht: Springer Open.
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