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Visibilità e invisibilità. Posizionamento, fiducia e accesso al campo in un’etnografia sui migranti romeni in Italia
No full textThis paper discusses researchers’ positionality in multi-sided ethnography of migration. It argues that insider researchers may use multiple strategies to access the field: they may also have different visible and invisible positions. Access to the field may greatly vary in respect to these positions, time available, and the research location - at home or abroad. The research was conducted with a group of Romanian irregular migrants in Milan, by a Romanian researcher. The researcher had multiple roles: invisible migrant, migrant sociologist, friend of a friend and friend of a relative. While visible strategies in Milan posed serious limitations to accessing the field, invisible ones were more successful. Besides, the use of trust relations through gatekeepers, here friends and relatives, were the most successful strategies. Time and space played also an important role during the fieldwork. Abroad migrants had not had enough time at disposal in contrast to the situation at home during their summer vacations. Location was even more important. Abroad irregular migrants tended to be untrustworthy. In contrast to the situation at home, where they were open to research inquiries
The Making of World Society
Get PDFDo the current changes of both geographical and symbolic boundaries lead to the emergence of a world society? How do transnational migration, communication and worldwide economic and political networks manifest themselves in globalised modernity? This book presents innovative contributions to transnationalisation research and world society theory based on empirical studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Practicable methodologies complete theoretical inquiries and provide examples of applied research, which also might be used in teaching
Content of Distance Communication as a Structuring Moment of the Modern World Society
Get PDFDistance communication tools as a mean of spanning and sustaining personal networks, as well as network analysis and the metaphor of a network have long been a focus of transnational studies (Vertovec 2001). There have also been attempts to make these concepts and objects of study fruitful and interesting to the world society approach. Despite the fact that the two approaches emphasize different dimensions of the issue, they are not necessarily contradictory. If we define society as "the inclusion of all possible contacts" (Luhmann 1984: 33) the network perspective can be informative for the model of the modern world society (Stichweh 2006; Holzer 2005). Transnational studies investigate the exact forms and contents of social networks, which can tell the world society approach adherent about their local density and heterogeneity, connectivity and clustering and thus about the structure of world society (Stichweh 2003). Illustrative is the assumption that the modern world society is characterized by universal accessibility – in principle, anybody can be an addressee (and a source) of communication (Fuchs 1997). However, there can be many societal barriers to the possible scope of a social relationship – it is who the participants of social exchange are. From this perspective, distance communication tools – their form and availability – determine the exact form of social relationships yet their nonexistence does not question the existence of the modern world society (Holzer 2005: 320f). Distance communication tools make the social networks possible, insofar they allow the disembedding of communication from physical co-presence (Lübbe 1996). Yet, social networks do not emerge in a vacuum but they are predetermined by particular social specifications on which kind of communication and with which addressee is relevant. Therefore, neither the scope of social networks directly, nor the availability of distance communication tools, structure the world society. Rather, other factors, for example 'mental maps' of the social world and in particular, the way potential contacts are localized, determine the world society's structure. Watts (2003) identified geographical location and profession as two such key factors for selecting communication partners.Peer Reviewe
The Making of World Society
Get PDFDo the current changes of both geographical and symbolic boundaries lead to the emergence of a world society? How do transnational migration, communication and worldwide economic and political networks manifest themselves in globalised modernity? This book presents innovative contributions to transnationalisation research and world society theory based on empirical studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Practicable methodologies complete theoretical inquiries and provide examples of applied research, which also might be used in teaching
The making of world society: perspectives from transnational research
Get PDFDo the current changes of both geographical and symbolic boundaries lead to the emergence of a world society? How do transnational migration, communication and worldwide economic and political networks manifest themselves in globalised modernity? This book presents innovative contributions to transnationalisation research and world society theory based on empirical studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Practicable methodologies complete theoretical inquiries and provide examples of applied research, which also might be used in teaching
The Making of World Society
No full textDo the current changes of both geographical and symbolic boundaries lead to the emergence of a world society? How do transnational migration, communication and worldwide economic and political networks manifest themselves in globalised modernity? This book presents innovative contributions to transnationalisation research and world society theory based on empirical studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Practicable methodologies complete theoretical inquiries and provide examples of applied research, which also might be used in teaching
The lndernet -A German Network in a Transnational Space
Get PDFDo the current changes of both geographical and symbolic boundaries lead to the emergence of a world society? How do transnational migration, communication and worldwide economic and political networks manifest themselves in globalised modernity?
This book presents innovative contributions to transnationalisation research and world society theory based on empirical studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Practicable methodologies complete theoretical inquiries and provide examples of applied research, which also might be used in teaching
Romania at its Borders: Mapping Out Crossing Border Practices
No full textAnghel RG. Romania at its Borders: Mapping Out Crossing Border Practices. New Europe College Stefan Odobleja Program Yearbook 2008-2009. 2011:21-46
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