@article{f481e110bead4ce2a8e04f6d44f1ba72,
title = "Following the 'hype': The role of leisure practices during 'homeland' visits in transnational youth's way of relating to Ghana",
abstract = "Drawing on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands and Ghana, this paper combines 'return' mobilities literature and youth studies to analyse the role of leisure practices during 'homeland' visits in transnational youth's way of relating to Ghana when they are entering into adulthood. Using the notion of mobility trajectories, the paper shows that leisure practices facilitate young people's ability to establish and renew intimate transnational relationships with diasporic friends, and Ghana-based same-generation relatives and romantic partners. Differing from earlier stays in Ghana, young people expressed their emerging sense of independence by exploring alternative sides of the country with these peers, based on common interests and belonging to the same life-cycle cohort. The findings add complexity to the notion of the 'homeland' as a monolithic place of reconnecting with family and roots by drawing attention to the intersection between young people's pathways to adulthood and transnational mobility.",
keywords = "Ghana, leisure, peer relationships, the Netherlands, transnational youth, 'home' visits, RETURN MIGRANTS, BLACKNESS, MIGRATION, TOURISM, SPACES",
author = "{Akom Ankobrey}, G.",
note = "Funding Information: This paper was presented as part of the {\textquoteleft}Visiting Migrants{\textquoteright} panel at IMISCOE 2021. I would like to thank Russell King, Aija Lulle and Farid Miah, the panel organizers and guest editors of this Special Issue, for their helpful suggestions on earlier versions of this paper. I would also like to thank Valentina Mazzucato, Lauren B. Wagner and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback. Most of all, I am grateful to the research participants for their time and contribution to the project. This work was supported by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 682982). Funding Information: This paper was presented as part of the {\textquoteleft}Visiting Migrants{\textquoteright} panel at IMISCOE 2021. I would like to thank Russell King, Aija Lulle and Farid Miah, the panel organizers and guest editors of this Special Issue, for their helpful suggestions on earlier versions of this paper. I would also like to thank Valentina Mazzucato, Lauren B. Wagner and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback. Most of all, I am grateful to the research participants for their time and contribution to the project. This work was supported by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 682982). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 The Authors. Global Networks published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.",
year = "2023",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1111/glob.12413",
language = "English",
volume = "23",
pages = "262--276",
journal = "Global Networks-a Journal of Transnational Affairs",
issn = "1470-2266",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "1",
}