Informal Social Protection Networks of Migrants: Typical Patterns in Different Transnational Social Spaces

Basak Bilecen*, Joanna Jadwiga Sienkiewicz

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Abstract

Social network analysis, together with qualitative methods, is an approach to the study of cross-border phenomena. The main goal of the article is to display the utility of network analysis particularly to investigate social protection within and across borders. Drawing on 300 ego-centric networks of immigrants in Germany from three countries of origin (Kazakhstan, Poland and Turkey), this article maps their social protection practices. Transnationality, a multidimensional concept, is acknowledged as a marker of heterogeneity, a personal attribute of the respondents in this study. The authors focus in particular on typical social protection patterns of migrants embedded in different transnational social spaces, and explored in detail through the visualisation of personal network maps. Copyright (c) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)227-243
Number of pages17
JournalPopulation Space and Place
Volume21
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr-2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • social network analysis
  • mixed-method research
  • transnationality
  • informal social protection
  • transnational social space
  • migration
  • FAMILIES
  • STRESS

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