Karlijn Haagsman

Karlijn Haagsman is a PhD student at the department of Technology and Society Studies since January 2010. She has obtained a Bachelor and Master degree in Cultural Anthropology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, and subsequently completed a 2-year Research Master termed ‘Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism’ at the University of Utrecht.

Currently, she is participating as a PhD researcher in the project ‘Effects of transnational child-raising arrangements on life-chances of children, migrant parents and caregivers between Africa and Europe (TCRAf-Eu)’. Her research within this project will focus on Nigerian and Angolan parents in the Netherlands and the effects TCRAs have on these parents’ life-chances (job performance, emotional wellbeing and health outcomes). She is supervised by Valentina Mazzucato. The website http://fasos-research.nl/tcra/  explains more about the research project TCRAf-Eu, in which Karlijn is participating. Also, it provides information of partners in the project and gives updates regarding the project.

Keywords:

Cultural Anthropology / Sociology
Migration Studies
Transnationalism
Transnational families
Sub-Sahara Africa (Nigeria & Angola)
Pacific (Tonga)