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Social Networks and Transnational Social Fields: A Review of Quantitative and Mixed-Methods Approaches:
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This paper argued that migrants create transnational social fields or spaces that connect their place of origin to destination areas, but they did not consider the centrality of social networks in transnationalism.Abstract:
Scholars of transnationalism have argued that migrants create transnational social fields or spaces that connect their place of origin to destination areas. Despite the centrality that social netwo...read more
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Fragmented Ties, Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America
TL;DR: Menjívar et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the naturaleza of social networks of inmigrantes in the US and identified razones potenciales for their inestabilidad.
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Charting Transnational Fields : Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge
TL;DR: A field-analytical methodology for research knowledge-based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization is proposed in this paper. But the methodology is not suitable for the analysis of complex social relationships in and beyond the nation-state.
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Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks
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