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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 227-243 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Population Space and Place |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr-2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- social network analysis
- mixed-method research
- transnationality
- informal social protection
- transnational social space
- migration
- FAMILIES
- STRESS