Analysis - More than a third of migration in sub-Saharan Africa happens within the continent. This mixing of people means that some children have parents of different national origins. Yet not enough is known about the lives of these children: how they form their identity and what impact migration has on them.
in sub-Saharan Africa happens within the continent. This mixing of people means that some children have parents of different national origins. Yet not enough is known about the lives of these children: how they form their identity and what impact migration has on them.Our aim was to understand how children with binational parentage formed their identity. We wanted to know if they aligned with either or both of their parents' identities and which individual or structural factors shaped that.
We learnt that the participants' primary identity was shaped predominantly by the closeness of family ties during their formative years. Family ties were evident in communication, visits and presence at rites of passage. Her two sisters were born almost a decade later in Gaborone and raised by their parents, who had settled into their lives in the capital. They described themselves differently. Seliwe described herself as Ghanaian. When she was growing up, the family spent holidays in Ghana and she thoroughly enjoyed those visits.
Fluency in a particular African language was not an important marker of identity for the study participants.
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