Migration, Remittances and Development: A case study of Senegalese labour migrants on the island Boa Vista, Cape Verde

Jung, Philipp Roman

doi:10.4000/cea.1800

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“…The current study makes worthwhile contributions to the body of literature on SSA youths' understanding of their parents' role in the course of their career construction in Australia. One of the main reasons why people migrant is a desire to provide better educational and economic opportunities for their families (Jung, 2015;Lundy and Lartey, 2017). This sentiment is applicable to all our study participants regardless of their entry status, educational level or country of origin.…”

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Restrictive Reciprocal Obligations: Perceptions of Parental Role in Career Choices of Sub-Saharan African Migrant Youths

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This study employed interpretivist, grounded theory method and utilized semi-structured interviews to explore how 31 African migrant high school and university students from eight sub-Saharan African representative countries and currently residing in Townsville, Australia, perceived the roles of their parents in their career development. The study findings revealed that the support (financial, social and emotional) and encouragement (sacrificial love, role modeling and guidance) received from parents underpinned the youths’ perceptions of their parents as influential in their career trajectories. Though participants acknowledged their indebtedness to parents and the system that nurtured them, they faced a dilemma conforming to parental preference or personal conviction, which presented “a fork in the career decision-making road.” Study findings indicate that participants’ reactions and strategies for negotiating parental approval differ based on entry status and gender. Most participants, particularly those with professional entry status, conformed to their parents’ career choice for fear of failure, while a few who followed their personal interests negotiated parental approval through dialogue and educating parents. Male participants with humanitarian entry status opposed their parents’ career preferences and followed their own personal interests. Taken together, all participants had strong desire to obtain parental approval and whether sought early or later, the main focus for all participants was prioritizing family needs and obligations. The practical implications of these findings for all stakeholders are discussed.

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Restrictive Reciprocal Obligations: Perceptions of Parental Role in Career Choices of Sub-Saharan African Migrant Youths

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“…Multi-nodal households are emerging, stretched between two or more locations (Crush, 2013). Migrants feel moral duties for their families at home, and can sacrifice their own food security to comply with their obligations as seen for Senegalese migrants in Cape Verde (Jung, 2015) and migrants in Southern Africa cities (Crush, 2013;Crush and Tawodzera, 2016). In specific cases, food security in the city is temporarily buttressed by informal flows of agricultural products from the rural family; this has been attested in Namibian (Pendleton et al, 2014) and Ethiopian (Tolossa, 2010) towns.…”

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Food security and migration in Africa: a validation of theoretical links using case studies from literature

Mulazzani¹,

Manrique²,

Stancu³

et al. 2020

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The connection between food security and migration is increasingly discussed by both international agencies and academic literature. However, despite several improvements, we continue to know little about the complex causal-effect relations that link these aspects and, in particular, how much migration patterns are affected by food security issues and how much, as a feedback, migration can affect food security, on both the origin and destination areas. This paper aims firstly to draw a general framework of this nexus and then to validate it using empirical literature on the African continent. A few common points can be emphasized for the continent: due to structural and familiar characteristics, different strategies based on opportunity costs or risk minimization (including food security aspects) may emerge; individuals often migrate following household strategies; multi-nodal households are emerging; land grabbing and land tenure security represent important drivers to be considered; emergencies or critical situations often cause the erosion of women rights. In many situations, the poverty trap prevents most food insecure households to leave marginal lands.

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“…Cabo Verde, once serving as a migration transit country into Europe and the United States, is becoming a final destination for some West African immigrants for various reasons including increased border controls into developed countries and the country's sustained economic development (Jung, 2015). Traditionally and historically, Cabo Verde is considered a country of emigration, whose diaspora plays an important role in its development (at the economic, cultural, and educational levels) (Åkesson, 2016).…”

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“…In 2007, Cabo Verde was one of only three countries to graduate from a least developed country (LDC) to a developing country category according to the United Nations (UN) classification based on poverty, human resource weakness, and economic vulnerability (UN News Centre, 2007). These factors together influence the mobility of people in the direction of Cabo Verde, representing a significant increase of immigration flows coming from other countries, especially the West African coast (Jung, 2015). In managing immigrants in Cabo Verde, successfully integrating them into Cabo Verdean society is critical; strategies that enhance such integration efforts should be encouraged and promoted.…”

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“…The recent immigrant destination country of Cabo Verde in West Africa, however, has only limited resources to manage the influx of regular and irregular immigrants while also dealing with changing domestic mobility patterns (Carling, 2004;Jung, 2015). Various stakeholders such as national and municipal governments, police, and cultural organizations have begun to focus resources and energy on developing policies and practices that enhance the integration of foreign guests toward a more cohesive society, but are they enough?…”

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Policy Considerations regarding the Integration of Lusophone West African Immigrant Populations

Lartey

Lundy

2017

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On January 23, 2012, Resolution No. 3 enacted the National Immigration Strategy for the island nation of Cabo Verde, the first of its kind in the country. As a buffer nation to Western Europe with a rapidly developing economy and good governance indicators, Cabo Verde is transitioning from a sending and transit country to a receiving nation for African mainlanders, especially from Guinea-Bissau. How effective are these immigration policies at managing these changing mobility patterns? Are immigrants successfully integrating into host communities? How might integration be handled more effectively? This policy briefing reports integration successes and failures from ethnographic research and considers the effectiveness of Cabo Verde’s National Immigration Strategy based on these findings. Cabo Verde’s immigration policy targets structural reforms such as education, healthcare, and housing, while additional socio-cultural strategies encourage coexistence among neighbours. Three years out, our study observed positive effects, while also suggesting additional reforms.

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Migration, Remittances and Development: A case study of Senegalese labour migrants on the island Boa Vista, Cape Verde

Cited by 6 publications

References 21 publications

Restrictive Reciprocal Obligations: Perceptions of Parental Role in Career Choices of Sub-Saharan African Migrant Youths

Restrictive Reciprocal Obligations: Perceptions of Parental Role in Career Choices of Sub-Saharan African Migrant Youths

Food security and migration in Africa: a validation of theoretical links using case studies from literature

Policy Considerations regarding the Integration of Lusophone West African Immigrant Populations

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