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Informal Social Protection Networks of Migrants: Typical Patterns in Different Transnational Social Spaces
Author(s) -
Bilecen Başak,
Sienkiewicz Joanna Jadwiga
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
population, space and place
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.398
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1544-8452
pISSN - 1544-8444
DOI - 10.1002/psp.1906
Subject(s) - transnationality , social protection , social network analysis , social network (sociolinguistics) , sociology , focus (optics) , immigration , economic geography , political science , geography , gender studies , computer science , social media , social capital , social science , world wide web , physics , optics , law
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 © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.