Laura J Ogden
Biographic Data
| ID | 234723 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura J Ogden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura J |
| FAMILY NAME | Ogden |
| SIGNATURE | OGDEN L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8145-9873 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reversing and expanding the gaze: Intergenerational transfers from people in the Global South to migrant background youth in the Global North
Intergenerational transfers (IGTs) in the context of migration studies are mostly conceptualized as material transfers, such as remittances, flowing from migrants to their relatives who remain at home. Studies on children and youth who remain in the origin country while their parents migrate also tend to focus on such material transfers and on the same directionality of flows. In this study, we reverse and expand the gaze by focusing on immateria…
Language, time, and diversity: Ghanaian and Syrian newcomers’ perceptions of inequalities and opportunities in Germany’s tracked secondary-school system
In Germany, newcomer students are usually directed toward lower-track schools due to perceived language deficiencies, commonly attending preparatory classes primarily offered in such schools. This tracking phenomenon raises questions about educational inequalities and institutional discrimination. Drawing on interview data from Syrian students in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hamburg and ethnographic data on transnationally mobile Ghanaian youth in …
It’s the same path, just another direction’: Ghanaian newcomers’ strategic navigations of a German two-pillar model for secondary schooling
The different school forms within Germany's tracked education system have traditionally led to different diplomas and thus future education and work prospects. Tracking has persistently disadvantaged migrant youth, who are over-represented in lower tracks. Since a 2010 reform introduced a two-pillar model in city-state Hamburg, the two remaining secondary-school forms, Gymnasium and Stadtteilschule, both offer the university-entrance qualificatio…
Transnational resources through trajectories and temporalities of migrant youth mobility between Ghana and Europe
Research on migrant youth makes two longstanding assumptions: that they are immobile following their own or their parents’ migration and that their resource environments are confined to their country of residence. Recent investigations of transnational youth mobility question both assumptions, showing that migrant youth – including the first and second generations – are highly mobile, and that their mobility has multiple impacts on their lives. T…
Doing Siblingship' Transnationally: Intra-Generational Kinship Among Mobile Migrant Youth Between Ghana and Germany
This article explores how migrant-background youth 'do siblingship' transnationally. Transnational migration and anthropological kinship research have both emphasised the plasticity of familial ties and concrete practices involved in 'doing family' and 'doing kinship'. Yet, their focus on inter-generational relationships has neglected intra-generational kinship, especially among youth in transnational contexts. Recent research shows that migrant-…
Transnational youth mobility through trajectories and temporalities
The physical mobility of young people affected by their own or their parents’ international migration - whom we call ‘transnational youth’ - has been under-researched due to assumptions about young people’s sedentarism and the dominance of a nation-state perspective. This Special Issue brings together eight articles on transnational youth mobility studied through the lenses of trajectories and temporalities, including cases from Africa, Asia, the…
Phoning Home: Migrant Youths’ Digital Mediations of Embodied Mobility
This collection of images explores how migrant youth digitally mediate the embodied experience of transnational mobility. Emerging from multisited and multimodal ethnographic fieldwork with Ghanaian-background youth who grow up between Ghana and Germany, these multiply mediated images depict the first "home" visit to Ghana of a young woman, Keziah (age 20), after four years of living in Germany. The collection explores the smartphone as an agenti…
Transnational cultural capital in migrant youth’s school transitions: Mobility trajectories between Ghana and Germany
Research on migrant youth's school transitions has focused on the country of residence, ignoring migrant youth's pre-migration lives in the country of origin. Drawing on 14 months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork between Ghana and Germany, this paper instead analyses school transitions through migrant youth's mobility trajectories, encompassing all geographic moves and concurrent family constellations over time and space, both before and aft…
Changing relationships to the country of origin through transnational mobility: Migrant youth's visits to Ghana
This paper explores how physical mobility shapes migrant youth’s changing relationships to their or their parents’ country of origin. Increasing numbers of youth in the Global North have a migration background and are transnationally engaged in virtual, imaginative and material mobilities. Yet our knowledge of their physical mobility is lacking, having largely been based on retrospective accounts from the country of residence, resulting in depict…
Transnational peer relationships as social capital: Mobile migrant youth between Ghana and Germany
A growing proportion of youth in the Global North are of migration background, many of whom engage in mobility across countries, through which they establish and maintain transnational networks of peers. While young people’s local peer relationships have been established as a source of social capital, studies have to date ignored the role of transnational peers. This is largely because young people’s mobility has been over-simplified, obscuring m…
Transnational youth mobility through trajectories and temporalities
The physical mobility of young people affected by their own or their parents’ international migration - whom we call ‘transnational youth’ - has been under-researched due to assumptions about young people’s sedentarism and the dominance of a nation-state perspective. This Special Issue brings together eight articles on transnational youth mobility studied through the lenses of trajectories and temporalities, including cases from Africa, Asia, the…
Transnational peer relationships as social capital: Mobile migrant youth between Ghana and Germany
A growing proportion of youth in the Global North are of migration background, many of whom engage in mobility across countries, through which they establish and maintain transnational networks of peers. While young people’s local peer relationships have been established as a source of social capital, studies have to date ignored the role of transnational peers. This is largely because young people’s mobility has been over-simplified, obscuring m…
Transnational resources through trajectories and temporalities of migrant youth mobility between Ghana and Europe
Research on migrant youth makes two longstanding assumptions: that they are immobile following their own or their parents’ migration and that their resource environments are confined to their country of residence. Recent investigations of transnational youth mobility question both assumptions, showing that migrant youth – including the first and second generations – are highly mobile, and that their mobility has multiple impacts on their lives. T…
Changing relationships to the country of origin through transnational mobility: Migrant youth's visits to Ghana
This paper explores how physical mobility shapes migrant youth’s changing relationships to their or their parents’ country of origin. Increasing numbers of youth in the Global North have a migration background and are transnationally engaged in virtual, imaginative and material mobilities. Yet our knowledge of their physical mobility is lacking, having largely been based on retrospective accounts from the country of residence, resulting in depict…
Transnational cultural capital in migrant youth’s school transitions: Mobility trajectories between Ghana and Germany
Research on migrant youth's school transitions has focused on the country of residence, ignoring migrant youth's pre-migration lives in the country of origin. Drawing on 14 months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork between Ghana and Germany, this paper instead analyses school transitions through migrant youth's mobility trajectories, encompassing all geographic moves and concurrent family constellations over time and space, both before and aft…
Phoning Home: Migrant Youths’ Digital Mediations of Embodied Mobility
This collection of images explores how migrant youth digitally mediate the embodied experience of transnational mobility. Emerging from multisited and multimodal ethnographic fieldwork with Ghanaian-background youth who grow up between Ghana and Germany, these multiply mediated images depict the first "home" visit to Ghana of a young woman, Keziah (age 20), after four years of living in Germany. The collection explores the smartphone as an agenti…
Transnational peer relationships as social capital: Mobile migrant youth between Ghana and Germany
A growing proportion of youth in the Global North are of migration background, many of whom engage in mobility across countries, through which they establish and maintain transnational networks of peers. While young people’s local peer relationships have been established as a source of social capital, studies have to date ignored the role of transnational peers. This is largely because young people’s mobility has been over-simplified, obscuring m…
Transnational cultural capital in migrant youth’s school transitions: Mobility trajectories between Ghana and Germany
Research on migrant youth's school transitions has focused on the country of residence, ignoring migrant youth's pre-migration lives in the country of origin. Drawing on 14 months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork between Ghana and Germany, this paper instead analyses school transitions through migrant youth's mobility trajectories, encompassing all geographic moves and concurrent family constellations over time and space, both before and aft…
Changing relationships to the country of origin through transnational mobility: Migrant youth's visits to Ghana
This paper explores how physical mobility shapes migrant youth’s changing relationships to their or their parents’ country of origin. Increasing numbers of youth in the Global North have a migration background and are transnationally engaged in virtual, imaginative and material mobilities. Yet our knowledge of their physical mobility is lacking, having largely been based on retrospective accounts from the country of residence, resulting in depict…
Phoning Home: Migrant Youths’ Digital Mediations of Embodied Mobility
This collection of images explores how migrant youth digitally mediate the embodied experience of transnational mobility. Emerging from multisited and multimodal ethnographic fieldwork with Ghanaian-background youth who grow up between Ghana and Germany, these multiply mediated images depict the first "home" visit to Ghana of a young woman, Keziah (age 20), after four years of living in Germany. The collection explores the smartphone as an agenti…
Language, time, and diversity: Ghanaian and Syrian newcomers’ perceptions of inequalities and opportunities in Germany’s tracked secondary-school system
In Germany, newcomer students are usually directed toward lower-track schools due to perceived language deficiencies, commonly attending preparatory classes primarily offered in such schools. This tracking phenomenon raises questions about educational inequalities and institutional discrimination. Drawing on interview data from Syrian students in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hamburg and ethnographic data on transnationally mobile Ghanaian youth in …
It’s the same path, just another direction’: Ghanaian newcomers’ strategic navigations of a German two-pillar model for secondary schooling
The different school forms within Germany's tracked education system have traditionally led to different diplomas and thus future education and work prospects. Tracking has persistently disadvantaged migrant youth, who are over-represented in lower tracks. Since a 2010 reform introduced a two-pillar model in city-state Hamburg, the two remaining secondary-school forms, Gymnasium and Stadtteilschule, both offer the university-entrance qualificatio…
Transnational resources through trajectories and temporalities of migrant youth mobility between Ghana and Europe
Research on migrant youth makes two longstanding assumptions: that they are immobile following their own or their parents’ migration and that their resource environments are confined to their country of residence. Recent investigations of transnational youth mobility question both assumptions, showing that migrant youth – including the first and second generations – are highly mobile, and that their mobility has multiple impacts on their lives. T…
Doing Siblingship' Transnationally: Intra-Generational Kinship Among Mobile Migrant Youth Between Ghana and Germany
This article explores how migrant-background youth 'do siblingship' transnationally. Transnational migration and anthropological kinship research have both emphasised the plasticity of familial ties and concrete practices involved in 'doing family' and 'doing kinship'. Yet, their focus on inter-generational relationships has neglected intra-generational kinship, especially among youth in transnational contexts. Recent research shows that migrant-…
Transnational youth mobility through trajectories and temporalities
The physical mobility of young people affected by their own or their parents’ international migration - whom we call ‘transnational youth’ - has been under-researched due to assumptions about young people’s sedentarism and the dominance of a nation-state perspective. This Special Issue brings together eight articles on transnational youth mobility studied through the lenses of trajectories and temporalities, including cases from Africa, Asia, the…
Reversing and expanding the gaze: Intergenerational transfers from people in the Global South to migrant background youth in the Global North
Intergenerational transfers (IGTs) in the context of migration studies are mostly conceptualized as material transfers, such as remittances, flowing from migrants to their relatives who remain at home. Studies on children and youth who remain in the origin country while their parents migrate also tend to focus on such material transfers and on the same directionality of flows. In this study, we reverse and expand the gaze by focusing on immateria…
Migration and Labor Dynamics (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Social science (4 works)