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Culture, utility or social systems? Explaining the cross-national ties of emigrants from Borşa, Romania
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Abstract Emigrants from Borşa, Romania, display two quite distinct patterns of ties with their community of origin: migration to Italy is discernibly transnational, with a strong reliance on migrant networks; while migration to the UK is more individualistic, with emigrants shunning interaction with compatri... mehr
Emigrants from Borşa, Romania, display two quite distinct patterns of ties with their community of origin: migration to Italy is discernibly transnational, with a strong reliance on migrant networks; while migration to the UK is more individualistic, with emigrants shunning interaction with compatriots and retaining only weak ties to Borşa. We argue that prevalent theories of cross-national ties fail adequately to explain this divergence. Instead, we draw on systems theory to explain the discrepancy in terms of divergent conditions for societal inclusion. In Italy, incorporation into parallel, unofficial structures of work, welfare and accommodation encouraged a reliance on cultural criteria for maintaining social ties. In the UK, migrants were obliged to integrate into state-sponsored systems, encouraging the relinquishing of ethnic ties in favour of more strategic networking to facilitate societal inclusion.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Migration; Integration
Klassifikation
Migration
Freie Schlagwörter
transnationalism; immigrant mobility; migrant networks; Romania
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2009
Seitenangabe
S. 1346-1364
Zeitschriftentitel
Ethnic and Racial Studies, 32 (2009) 8
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870802245026
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)