The Impact of Parents’ Work Migration on the Social, Communication and Educational Experiences of Left-Behind Adolescents
Parental work migration can pose important risks for adolescents, such as joining inappropriate peer-groups, poor results in education or school drop-out. It can also facilitate positive changes in young people’s behaviour, as many become aware of the sacrifices their parents make to provide them wi...
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Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, and Polish Academy of Sciences
2022-12-01
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| description | Parental work migration can pose important risks for adolescents, such as joining inappropriate peer-groups, poor results in education or school drop-out. It can also facilitate positive changes in young people’s behaviour, as many become aware of the sacrifices their parents make to provide them with a better lifestyle and education and behave responsibly in return. Given that the literature highlights both negative and positive transformations related to parents’ migration, our aim is to address the impact of migration on adolescents left behind in rural Romania from their own perspective. We focus on teenagers’ experiences of separation from their mother, father or both, in different situations (family life, communication and rela-tionships, caring and concern for others, school achievements, future migration plans). Young people’s agency – their capacity to self-educate and organise themselves to perform well at school and in everyday activities following parental migration – is less studied in Romania. Thus, in addition to making the reality of these adolescents better known, our approach provides information that can be turned into policy solutions aimed at improving their life quality. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a246f53f0326485d86df3a13bfc89b002023-02-12T13:34:05ZengCentre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, and Polish Academy of SciencesCentral and Eastern European Migration Review2300-16822022-12-0111210111710.54667/ceemr.2022.14The Impact of Parents’ Work Migration on the Social, Communication and Educational Experiences of Left-Behind AdolescentsGeorgiana Udrea0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5692-4320Gabriela Guiu1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4338-0093College of Communication and Public Relations, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, RomaniaCollege of Communication and Public Relations, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, RomaniaParental work migration can pose important risks for adolescents, such as joining inappropriate peer-groups, poor results in education or school drop-out. It can also facilitate positive changes in young people’s behaviour, as many become aware of the sacrifices their parents make to provide them with a better lifestyle and education and behave responsibly in return. Given that the literature highlights both negative and positive transformations related to parents’ migration, our aim is to address the impact of migration on adolescents left behind in rural Romania from their own perspective. We focus on teenagers’ experiences of separation from their mother, father or both, in different situations (family life, communication and rela-tionships, caring and concern for others, school achievements, future migration plans). Young people’s agency – their capacity to self-educate and organise themselves to perform well at school and in everyday activities following parental migration – is less studied in Romania. Thus, in addition to making the reality of these adolescents better known, our approach provides information that can be turned into policy solutions aimed at improving their life quality.https://www.ceemr.uw.edu.pl/vol-11-no-2-2022/articles/impact-parents-work-migration-social-communication-and-educationalparental work migrationschool performancelearning agencynew communication technologiesromanian migrantstransnational families |
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| title | The Impact of Parents’ Work Migration on the Social, Communication and Educational Experiences of Left-Behind Adolescents |
| title_full | The Impact of Parents’ Work Migration on the Social, Communication and Educational Experiences of Left-Behind Adolescents |
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| title_short | The Impact of Parents’ Work Migration on the Social, Communication and Educational Experiences of Left-Behind Adolescents |
| title_sort | impact of parents work migration on the social communication and educational experiences of left behind adolescents |
| topic | parental work migration school performance learning agency new communication technologies romanian migrants transnational families |
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