Symbols of success: Youth, peer pressure and the role of adulthood among juvenile male return migrants in Ghana
Symbols of success: Youth, peer pressure and the role of adulthood among juvenile male return migrants in Ghana
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成功的象征：青年、同侪压力和成年男性在加纳回国移民中的作用
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2010
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Christian Ungruhe
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Christian Ungruhe
独立的青年移徙在许多非洲社会中具有社会基础。虽然它往往被完全视为一个过程中的代际谈判，从而导致更高的社会地位回国后，本文指出，同龄人的影响发挥了重要作用，在决策过程中的离开和返回年轻的北方加纳男性。青少年移民很少努力创造进入成年的手段，但却很难带着现代物品返回。去而复返的普遍动机不是为了达到成年，而是享受青春和获得朋友的认可。
Independent youth migration is socially embedded in many African societies. While it is often exclusively perceived of as a process of intergenerational negotiation which leads to higher social positions after returning home, this article points out that peer influences play a major role in the process of decision-making of leaving and returning among young northern Ghanaian males. Juvenile migrants make little effort to generate means to enter into adulthood but struggle to return with modern goods. Rather than being a means of achieving adulthood, enjoying youth and gaining recognition among friends are the prevailing motives for going and returning.