Research on transnational youth mobilities has shown the importance of visits to the ‘home’ country for young people's identities, sense of belonging and access to resources. Yet what transpires on these visits and how do young people agentically shape their experiences? This paper brings into dialogue scholarship on ‘homeland’ mobilities, trajectories and temporalities to shed light on how youth experience their attachments to a ‘homeland’ and reveal the mechanisms through which young people's lives are affected by ‘home’ visits. We use the temporal concept of pacing, recently developed in mobility studies, to analyze how young people experience ‘home’ visits at different moments in their lives. Drawing on 18 months of multi‐sited ethnographic fieldwork using mobile methods with Ghanaian‐background youth who live in Belgium, we show that visits to Ghana are experienced differently by youth throughout their life time in relation to how much control they exert over the pacing of their visits. Through their mobility and their practices before, during and after ‘home’ visits, young people craft affective experiences with people and places in Ghana and experience different paces of life across space and time. This ultimately shapes how young people imagine a future ‘good life’ that involves a transnational lifestyle and that has the ‘right pace’ by incorporating aspects of life from both Belgium and Ghana. A focus on pacing and trajectories contributes to acknowledging both temporal and spatial dimensions of transnational youth mobility.

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流动轨迹的节奏：流动青年“家”访的时间性和代理性

关于跨国青年流动的研究表明，访问“祖国”对于年轻人的身份、归属感和获取资源的重要性。然而，这些访问中发生了什么？年轻人如何主动塑造他们的经历？本文引入有关“故乡”流动性、轨迹和时间性的对话学术，以揭示青少年如何体验对“故乡”的依恋，并揭示“故乡”访问影响青少年生活的机制。我们使用时间概念踱步最近在流动性研究中开发出来，旨在分析年轻人在生命中不同时刻如何经历“家访”。我们利用移动方法对居住在比利时的加纳背景青年进行了 18 个月的多地点民族志实地调查，结果表明，青年人一生中对加纳访问的体验有所不同，这与他们对访问节奏的控制程度有关。他们的来访。通过他们在“家访”之前、期间和之后的活动和实践，年轻人与加纳的人和地方产生了情感体验，并体验了跨越空间和时间的不同生活节奏。这最终塑造了年轻人对未来“美好生活”的想象，这种生活涉及跨国生活方式，并通过融合比利时和加纳生活的各个方面来实现“正确的节奏”。对节奏和轨迹的关注有助于承认两个都跨国青年流动的时间和空间维度。