Social Networks and Migration: Relocations, Relationships and Resources

Cover\nSeries\nSocial Networks and Migration: Relocations, Relationships and Resources\nCopyright information\nTable of contents\nList of figures\nAbout the Author\nAcknowledgments\n1 Introduction: Embarking on a Book about Networks\n	Key statement of intent\n	Research career\n	Embarking on a book\n	Kathleen’s story\n	The structure of the book\n2 Conceptualising Migrant Networks: Advancing the Field of Qualitative Social Network Analysis\n	Introduction\n	Maryam’s story\n	Looking beyond the metaphor: adopting a network lens to understand relationality\n	Networks and resources: beyond the bonding and bridging capital dichotomy\n	Dynamism and change over time\n	Telling network stories: discursive devices and meaning making\n	Conclusion\n3 Researching Migration and Networks: Empirical and Methodological Innovations\n	Making decisions about how to analyse the enlarged corpus of data\n	Thick descriptions\n	Reflexivity\n	Asking questions about social ties\n	Repeat interviewing over time\n	Sociograms and interviews\n	The presentation of the network self\n	Adrianna’s story\n	Conclusion\n4 Social Networks and Stories of Arrival\n	Introduction\n	Howard’s story\n	Contextualising the lure of strong ties\n	Weak ties – though often in tandem with strong ties\n	Romance and marriage migration: looking beyond dyads\n	Negative ties\n	Enter the internet – replacing the need for social networks?\n	Fragile, fleeting and loose connections\n	Organisational ties – Information and communication technology\n	Conclusion\n5 Employment, Deskilling and Reskilling: Revisiting Strong and Weak Ties\n	Daragh’s story\n	Being a ‘good networker’: the direct and overt role of networks in London’s financial district\n	Converting cultural capital and the role of weak ties\n	Drawing on social ties to navigate hostile working environments\n	Co-ethnic negative social ties and the dark side of social capital\n	The role of networks in restarting careers at different family life stages\n	Conclusion\n6 Evolving Networks in Place over Time: A Life Course Lens\n	Introduction\n	Irène’s story\n	Making new friends in new places: students and network elasticity\n	Networks and identities: beyond one-dimensional homophily\n	Befriending the natives: network closure?\n	Getting along with the neighbours: the enduring salience of propinquity\n	Evolving networks through the life course: the role of child-based sociality\n	Ageing – changing social networks through the life course\n	Conclusion\n7 Transnational Ties: Narrating Relationality, Resources and Dynamics over Time\n	Introduction\n	Agnieszka’s story\n	The strength and intensity of family ties\n	Family tensions and fractured transnational kinship ties\n	“It’s like a different friendship”: the dynamics of transnational friendship ties\n	Transnational communication over time: from writing letters to reading Facebook\n	Remittances: the flow of financial resources through transnational networks\n	Transnational care networks through the life course: the need for propinquity\n	Transnational networks and questions of return\n	Conclusion\n8 Conclusion: Thoughts and Future Directions\n	Introduction\n	The contribution of ‘telling network stories’\n	Revisiting large, longitudinal qualitative data sets\n	Challenging the strong tie versus weak tie dichotomy\n	Exploring the role of networks across different labour market sectors\n	Analysing the dynamism of friendship ties over time\n	Exploring transnational relations\n	Unsettling events\n	Future directions\nAppendix: Details of the Various Research Projects Underpinning This Book\n	Irish nurses in Britain in the post- war era (2004–2005)\n	Post- accession Polish migration to London\n	Muslims in the London Borough of Barnet\n	French highly skilled migrants in the financial sector (2010–2013)\n	Irish highly qualified migrants in Britain post-economic recession (2013– 2014)\n	Polish migrants in London: ten years since accession (2014)\n	Older migrants in London (2017–2019)\nNotes\nReferences\nIndex