Drawing on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands and Ghana, this paper combines ‘return’ mobilities literature and youth studies to analyse the role of leisure practices during ‘homeland’ visits in transnational youth's way of relating to Ghana when they are entering into adulthood. Using the notion of mobility trajectories, the paper shows that leisure practices facilitate young people's ability to establish and renew intimate transnational relationships with diasporic friends, and Ghana-based same-generation relatives and romantic partners. Differing from earlier stays in Ghana, young people expressed their emerging sense of independence by exploring alternative sides of the country with these peers, based on common interests and belonging to the same life-cycle cohort. The findings add complexity to the notion of the ‘homeland’ as a monolithic place of reconnecting with family and roots by drawing attention to the intersection between young people's pathways to adulthood and transnational mobility.

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跟随“炒作”：“祖国”访问期间休闲活动在跨国青年与加纳的联系方式中的作用

本文借鉴在荷兰和加纳进行的 17 个月的民族志实地调查，结合“回归”流动文献和青年研究，分析“祖国”访问期间的休闲实践在跨国青年进入成年时与加纳建立联系的方式中的作用. 该论文使用流动轨迹的概念表明，休闲活动有助于年轻人与散居海外的朋友、加纳的同辈亲戚和浪漫伴侣建立和更新亲密的跨国关系。与早期在加纳逗留不同，年轻人通过与这些同龄人一起探索该国的不同方面来表达他们新兴的独立感，基于共同的兴趣并属于同一生命周期队列。