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Migration Networks and Migration Decision Making

  • Drawing on the rational choice approach and the economic sociology of migration, this article discusses the role of social networks in terms of location-specific social capital. It discusses relations between sociological and economic aspects of migration and outlines the influence of social capital on migration decision-making and chain migration processes. There have been various attempts to measure these effects through empirical migration research, and this article focuses on two such studies. The first example concerns an investigation of migration intentions among Bulgarians in the 2001 Bulgarian census. The second is return migration in the household context of Italian migrants in Germany, based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The main finding is that social capital at the place of destination has positive impacts on emigration intentions and return migration, whereas social capital at the place of residence has negative impacts on return migration.

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Author:Sonja HaugORCiDGND
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/13691830801961605
ISSN:1369-183X
Parent Title (English):Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Special Issue: Economics in Migration Research: Towards Disciplinary Integration?
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2008
Release Date:2021/11/01
Tag:Migrant Networks; Rational Choice Theory; Theories of Migration
Volume:34
Issue:4
First Page:585
Last Page:605
Institutes:Fakultät Angewandte Sozial- und Gesundheitswissenschaften
Kompetenzzentren der OTH Regensburg / Institut für Sozialforschung und Technikfolgenabschätzung (IST)
Fakultät Angewandte Sozial- und Gesundheitswissenschaften / Labor Empirische Sozialforschung
Publication:Externe Publikationen
research focus:Lebenswissenschaften und Ethik