African Child Migration in Circumstances of Vulnerability: Developing a Research Network

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Salami, Oluwabukola

• SSHRC Awarded PDG 2019: Our project will develop an international research partnership to examine the experiences of African migrant children. One objective is to examine the experiences of vulnerable African migrant children and how they navigate their everyday lives in Ghana and Canada. A second objective is to examine the potential for an international research partnership and network to contribute to improving the lives of African migrant children. Our study will include case studies on (i) African migrant children in Canada (children with a single parent, with a family member with a history of gun violence, those who have been separated and reunited with parents); and (ii) African children in Ghana (including children who migrate or are trafficked for labour in Africa, children who survive through begging and other hazardous work on streets in Africa, and children left behind by emigrant parents). Network members from nine universities, spanning four continents, are collaborators on this project. A key partner is the University of Ghana and our current planned project partnership is supported through the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), a leading global network for higher education and research, made up of 23 universities, spanning 13 countries on 6 continents.

• Date created

  2018-11-15

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Grant Application
  • PDG
  • Nursing
  • Risk
  • Family
  • 2019
  • Child
  • Research Network
  • Intercultural
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Trafficking
  • Gender
  • Multiculturalism
  • Gun Violence
  • Partnership
  • Africa
  • Transnationalism
  • Policy
  • Immigrant
  • Refugee
  • Intercultural Realities
  • World Universities Network
  • Ghana
  • African
  • Intersectionality
  • Family Dynamics
  • Migration
  • Human Trafficking
  • Identity
  • Mobility
  • Migrant
  • Vulnerable
  • Canada
  • Successfull SSHRC
  • Partnership Development Grant
  • Parenting
  • Racism

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-sx7g-cg95

• License

  © Salami, Oluwabukola. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2022.