All Outputs (4)

Connecting with home, keeping in touch: Physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Tanle, A., Owusu, S., De Lannoy, A., & Bango, A. (2018). Connecting with home, keeping in touch: Physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa, 88(2), 404-424. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972017000973

There is a long history of migration among low-income families in sub-Saharan Africa, in which (usually young, often male) members leave home to seek their fortune in what are perceived to be more favourable locations. While the physical and virtual... Read More about Connecting with home, keeping in touch: Physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa.

The historical geographies of European childhood in colonial Africa : children's lives in Nyasaland 1889-1964 (2018)
Thesis
Cross, B. M. (2018). The historical geographies of European childhood in colonial Africa : children's lives in Nyasaland 1889-1964. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221372

The research presented in this thesis recovers the experiences of European children who grew up in colonial Nyasaland, now known as Malawi, in the late nineteenth and early-mid twentieth centuries (1889-1964). These geographical histories of childhoo... Read More about The historical geographies of European childhood in colonial Africa : children's lives in Nyasaland 1889-1964.

Grandfathers caring for orphaned grandchildren in rural Southern Malawi : invisible in plain sight? (2018)
Thesis
Lazaro, M. C. (2018). Grandfathers caring for orphaned grandchildren in rural Southern Malawi : invisible in plain sight?. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220827

This thesis explores grandfathers’ caregiving for orphaned grandchildren in rural Southern Malawi. Using an ethnographic approach informed by intersectionality and situated within interpretivist framework, children, young people, and adults from rura... Read More about Grandfathers caring for orphaned grandchildren in rural Southern Malawi : invisible in plain sight?.

Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: Perspectives from urban Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., de Lannoy, A., Bango, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Tanle, A., Abane, A., & Owusu, S. (2018). Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: Perspectives from urban Africa. Journal of international development, 30(4), 539-558. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3340

Issues surrounding youth employment and unemployment are central to the next development decade. Understanding how youth use mobile phones as a means of communicating and exchanging information about employment and livelihoods is particularly import... Read More about Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: Perspectives from urban Africa.