Preliminary communication
The Notion of “Social Networks” in Migration
Marie-Antoinette Hily
William Berthomière
Dimitrina Spencer
Abstract
What it means to focus on the notion of “social network” from a migration point of view? By exploring this question, the authors describe the conceptual framework of this concept. Developed in the field of urban anthropology, with a scientific approach of the social combining “relation” and “situation”, the notion of network continued its career in the field of the sociology of the migrations. By introducing elements of complexity into the analysis, this notion made it possible to break with an approach based on the “communautarist” approach of the migrant groups.
Keywords
migration; social network; social theory
Hrčak ID:
9705
URI
Publication date:
29.12.2006.
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