The Kayayei Project seeks to provide insights into female adolescents’ unaccompanied migration for labor in Ghana. More specifically, it examines caregivers’ perspectives on: ethnotheories on childhood/adolescence; the child’s role in the family; child independent migration and labor; gender; and family processes and multi-level factors that influence female children’s decisions to migrate for work. The team has completed data collection from all 90 caregivers and is nearly finished transcribing and translating the qualitative interviews. Dr. Abdallah Ibrahim will be traveling to Ghana in February to meet with the communities involved to report back and discuss the next steps. The team will soon begin data analysis.
