Ludger Pries
Biographic Data
| ID | 331856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ludger Pries |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ludger |
| FAMILY NAME | Pries |
| SIGNATURE | PRIES L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ruhr University Bochum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0972-5177 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 163 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
‘Mixed migration’ or forced migration? Evidence from four transit countries
The term ‘mixed migration’ was introduced to encompass more than just the traditional refugee situation. It usually leads to the idea of decomposing mixed flows into groups that do and do not merit international protection. This text argues that the social reality commonly referred to as ‘mixed migration’ is actually a cumulative process of forced migration. Based on survey and autobiographical data, it is demonstrated that violence in various fo…
Forced Migrants’ Agency in a Life Course Approach—A Conceptual Proposal and Empirical Illustration
Forced migrants live and act under extremely restricted conditions, nevertheless they make their own living. To understand and explain their agency, there are inductive, usually qualitative, approaches like symbolic interactionism or biographical case reconstruction and deductive, often quantitative, methodologies like rational choice and (cap)abilities-aspirations concepts. Integrating elements of biographical and life course research, critical …
Forced Migration: An Integrative Perspective for the 21st Century
Forced Migration across Mexico: Organized Violence, Migrant Struggles, and Life Trajectories
Forced Migration in Transit: Migrant Experiences of Organized Violence in Mexico and Turkey
Geosoziologie
Calificación, relaciones laborales y mercado de trabajo: El concepto de "estrechez del ámbito empresarial" en España
Analisis comparativo internacional de la cualificacion de la mano de obra, del mercado de trabajo, y de las relaciones industriales. Tomando como foco Espana, se compara con respecto a otros paises europeos, asi como con Australia, E.E.U.U., Canada, y Japon. En la Republica Federal de Alemania, los procesos y tipos de cualificacion, y el mercado de trabajo son estructurados por profesiones publicamente reguladas e institucionalizadas. Sin embargo…
Verstehende Kooperation: Für eine Soziologie der Evolution im Anthropozän
Die Soziologie hat eine lange Tradition in der Diagnose von Gegenwartsgesellschaften, aber wenig theoretische und empirische Instrumente zur Analyse der langfristigen Entwicklung des menschlichen Zusammenlebens. Dies geht Hand in Hand mit einer gewissen Skepsis gegenüber der (lange Zeit von der Biologie dominierten) Evolutionstheorie und -forschung. Das Hauptargument dieses Artikels ist, dass besonders in der Ära des Anthropozän eine Soziologie d…
Trajectories of Forced Migration: Central American Migrants on Their Way Toward the USA
Executive Summary Mexico is increasingly important as a country of transit migration between the Global South and the Global North. Migration dynamics from Central America to and through Mexico are mainly considered as economic or mixed migration of people looking for work and a better life in the USA. Nevertheless, since the 2010s the number of asylum applications in Mexico has sky rocketed. Based on a survey of Central American migrants in Mexi…
Between Humanitarian Assistance and Externalizing of EU Borders: The EU-Turkey Deal and Refugee Related Organizations in Turkey
This paper examines whether multilevel transnational cooperation makes a difference in refugee protection, especially in protracted displacement. In response to the forced migration of millions of Syrians to Turkey starting in 2011, the EU and Turkish government published a joint statement in March 2016. The so-called EU-Turkey deal (EUTD) provided a substantial flow of money (EUR 6 billion in four years) from the EU to Turkey. In return Turkey h…
Syrian refugees arriving in Germany: Choice of corridor and individual characteristics of forced migrants
In 2015 and 2016, almost two and a half million forced migrants entered the European Union. Most of them arrived in the European Union from Syria, but there were also forced migrants from Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries. While many of these migrants used the so-called Balkan route after passing through Turkey, others arrived in Greece via Lebanon or Turkey, and some traveled via North African countries, mainly Egypt and Libya. Why did refu…
Neuerfindung der Grenzforschung: Steffen Mau , Sortiermaschinen. Die Neuerfindung der Grenze im 21. Jahrhundert. München: Edition Mercator/C.H. Beck 2021, 189 S., br., 14,95 €
Grenzziehungen fr personale Mobilitt im 21. Jahrhundert geleistet. Die Monographie ist vor allem im Zusammenhang der Arbeiten des Sonderforschungsbereichs (SFB) 1265 "Re-Figuration von Rumen" (Lw & Knoblauch, 2019) entstanden und fut auf mehreren, vor allem englischsprachigen Einzelpublikationen. Mau behandelt die Entwicklung und Funktion von Grenzen oder genauer von Grenzregimen, die er als "Sortiermaschinen der globalisierten Welt" (S. 15) beze…
Trabajo y economía en una perspectiva sociologógica neo-institucionalista. Reflexiones acerca de 100 números de la revista Sociología del Trabajo
El mercado – como tipo ideal – es una institución social que rige en contextos de acción anónimos de intercambio de bienes, que son más o menos homogéneos, contables y cuantificables cuyo valor se determina por el tiempo de trabajo que cuesta fabricarlos. Históricamente, esta institución social del mercado, y del trabajo como vía central de participación social, se desarrolló tarde – por ejemplo a comparación de la institución de la familia o de …
Organized violence as a never-ending story? Reflections in light of the Russian aggression against Ukraine
During the last decade, especially with the Russian aggression against Ukraine, armed conflicts and other forms of organized violence increased in volume and public discourse. In Sociology, violence and, particularly organized violence were marginalized topics for a long time, not least because many sociologists considered violence as a relic of traditional societies. Based on an analysis of major sociological studies and an empirical analysis of…
Toward a sociology of evolution in the Anthropocene–Shared intentionality and cooperation through understanding minds
Sociology has a long tradition of diagnosing contemporary societies, but little theoretical and empirical instruments for analyzing the long-term evolution of human coexistence. This goes hand in hand with a bias to disregard insights of evolutionary theory and research. The main argument here to develop is that a sociology of evolution should enter at the core of our discipline. This becomes even more important in the era of the Anthropocene as …
Die Zukunft einer religionssensiblen und pluralen Wohlfahrtspflege
Das deutsche System der Wohlfahrtspflege hat sich in über einem Jahrhundert entwickelt und verbindet das Prinzip der Subsidiarität mit einer vielfältigen Verbandslandschaft von Organisationen, die sich jeweils für bestimmte Berufs-, Glaubens- oder Beschäftigtengruppen in vielfältigen gesellschaftlichen Aufgabenbereichen engagieren. In der Wohlfahrtspflege entwickelten sich die an den christlichen Kirchen und anderen relevanten sozialen Gruppen au…
Similar History and Different Strategies of ‘Arrival’: Female Yazidi Survivors of the Islamic State in Germany
Border crossing migration always includes (re-)negotiation of world views, home and the meaning of arrival. This negotiation of arrival takes place within the broader societal contexts of the countries of origin and of arrival but is also a mediation with oneself and with social networks. This holds true especially for refugees and émigrés who have to leave their habitual places of living involuntarily. This paper examines the lives of Yazidi wom…
Sewing transnational textures of labour regulation: Towards an Integrative Perspective
Labour regulation is often approached either by methodological nationalism or methodological globalism. Main arguments are that labour and its regulation are increasingly dis-embedded and commodified. As an alternative framing we propose a (neo-)institutionalist multi-level and multi-actors approach. Based on literature review and own studies we argue that there is empirical evidence of transnational labour regulation combining different logics o…
Refugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe
Between clarity and disorientation: Remarks on the unease of Wolfgang Streeck with the 21st century migration
In his essay
The momentum of transnational social spaces in Mexico-US-migration
Debates on border control increased in Europe, especially since the refugee movement in 2015. But to what extent does cross-border migration has its own momentum, independently of labor market conditions and of migration policies? Taking the example of the long-term migration dynamics between Mexico and the USA the article argues that the existence of transnational social spaces is an influencing factor in its own. Therefore, first we review some…
We will Manage It” – Did Chancellor Merkel's Dictum Increase or Even Cause the Refugee Movement in 2015
In public and scientific debates about the dynamics of the so‐called refugee crisis of 2015, there are highly controversial positions concerning the statement on August 2015 by Chancellor Merkel: “We will manage it” Did this dictum actually increase or even unleash the refugee migration towards Europe in 2015? Was Germany's governmental policy against the legal European and national frame? Based on an analysis of legal documents and public statem…
European and Latin American Social Scientists As Refugees, Émigrés and Return Migrants
Erwerbsregulierung in einer globalisierten Welt
The Transnationalization of Labor Mobility: Development Trends and Selected Challenges Involved in Its Regulation
Internationalization of value chains and of for-profit as well as non-profit organizations, and as a result of cheaper and safer mass migration, transnational labor mobility is of increasing importance. The article presents the development of the different types of cross-border labor mobility (from long-term labor migration over expatriats/inpatriats up to business traveling); it analyses crucial aspects of labor conditions and how the collective…
Configurations of geographic and societal spaces: A Sociological Proposal Between 'Methodological Nationalism' and the 'Spaces of Flows
The societal practices, symbol systems and artefacts that form sociology's field of study are shifting in their spatial reach. Terms like internationalization, globalization, glocalization or transnationalization denote an (at least perceived) increase in the flow of information, commodities and capital across nation-state borders as well as an unprecedented ease of human spatial mobility. Situated in the wider research programme of transnational…
Determining the Causes and Durability of Transnational Labour Migration between Mexico and the United States: Some Empirical Findings
While the field of transnational migration studies is expanding, one important challenge is to broaden research from a mainly qualitative approach proving the existence of transnational migration phenomena toward efforts to quantify transnational migration and pay more attention to analysing its internal dynamics and interrelationships with other (ideal) types of migration. Based on a qualitative and quantitative empirical study of (trans)migrant…
The Disruption of Social and Geographic Space: Mexican-US Migration and the Emergence of Transnational Social Spaces
In the last decade of the 20th century globalization as a key concept in social sciences and political debate indicated a general shift in the (perception of the) relation between the social and the spatial. At the same time, in migration studies, as a central field for studying this ongoing reconfiguration of social and spatial relations, the focus of transnationalism became very promising. Based on empirical research and conceptual reflections …
Transnationale Soziale Räume: Theoretisch-empirische Skizze am Beispiel der Arbeitswanderungen Mexico – USA
In den letzten Jahrzehnten ist ein qualitativer Wandel in der Natur von internationalen Migrationsprozessen zu registrieren, und im Zusammenhang der allgemeinen Globalisierungstendenzen ist von einem neuen „Zeitalter der Migration“ (Castles/Miller 1993) die Rede. Dieser Wandel legt auch die Veränderung des theoretischkonzeptionellen Bezugs- und Fragenrahmens nahe. Traditionell wurden internationale Migrationsprozesse in den Sozialwissenschaften ü…
Transnationalisation and the Challenge of Differentiated Concepts of Space
Terms like globalisation, transnationalisation, glocalisation, world society, world empire, and trans‐world indicate that in social sciences there are different concepts applied to the increasing cross‐border entanglement and internationalisation of the world. Meanwhile some scholars argue that geographic borders and territories are increasingly losing their importance for structuring human life and social spaces, others hold that new politics of…
"Jenseits von "Identität oder Integration: Grenzen überspannende Migrantenorganisationen
We will Manage It” – Did Chancellor Merkel's Dictum Increase or Even Cause the Refugee Movement in 2015
In public and scientific debates about the dynamics of the so‐called refugee crisis of 2015, there are highly controversial positions concerning the statement on August 2015 by Chancellor Merkel: “We will manage it” Did this dictum actually increase or even unleash the refugee migration towards Europe in 2015? Was Germany's governmental policy against the legal European and national frame? Based on an analysis of legal documents and public statem…
Ambiguities of global and transnational collective identities
As traditional categories of collective identity are in decline and brought into question, the process of defining shared perceptions of 'us' and 'them' by new markers and new mechanisms seems more important than ever. In the article, I summarize basic aspects of collective identity formation in the ongoing processes of globalization and transnationalization and discuss the basic challenges of collective identity in the twenty-first century. I pr…
Transnationalisierung der sozialen Welt
Trajectories of Forced Migration: Central American Migrants on Their Way Toward the USA
Executive Summary Mexico is increasingly important as a country of transit migration between the Global South and the Global North. Migration dynamics from Central America to and through Mexico are mainly considered as economic or mixed migration of people looking for work and a better life in the USA. Nevertheless, since the 2010s the number of asylum applications in Mexico has sky rocketed. Based on a survey of Central American migrants in Mexi…
Between Humanitarian Assistance and Externalizing of EU Borders: The EU-Turkey Deal and Refugee Related Organizations in Turkey
This paper examines whether multilevel transnational cooperation makes a difference in refugee protection, especially in protracted displacement. In response to the forced migration of millions of Syrians to Turkey starting in 2011, the EU and Turkish government published a joint statement in March 2016. The so-called EU-Turkey deal (EUTD) provided a substantial flow of money (EUR 6 billion in four years) from the EU to Turkey. In return Turkey h…
Warum pendeln manche Migranten häufig zwischen Herkunfts- und Ankunftsregion
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 69 - 88
Institucionalización o desinstitucionalización del curso de vida? Biografía y sociedad como un enfoque integrativo e interdisciplinario
El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar brevemente la manera como se ha utilizado y desarrollado el enfoque "biografía y sociedad" en Alemania. Este enfoque constituye una visión de la realidad social que enfatiza la dominación del tiempo y la relación del individuo con la sociedad. De manera especial, se hace referencia a la hipótesis de la institucionalización del curso de vida y el papel que algunos factores han jugado en ésta, como por ejemp…
Calificación, relaciones laborales y mercado de trabajo: El concepto de "estrechez del ámbito empresarial" en España
Analisis comparativo internacional de la cualificacion de la mano de obra, del mercado de trabajo, y de las relaciones industriales. Tomando como foco Espana, se compara con respecto a otros paises europeos, asi como con Australia, E.E.U.U., Canada, y Japon. En la Republica Federal de Alemania, los procesos y tipos de cualificacion, y el mercado de trabajo son estructurados por profesiones publicamente reguladas e institucionalizadas. Sin embargo…
Toward a sociology of evolution in the Anthropocene–Shared intentionality and cooperation through understanding minds
Sociology has a long tradition of diagnosing contemporary societies, but little theoretical and empirical instruments for analyzing the long-term evolution of human coexistence. This goes hand in hand with a bias to disregard insights of evolutionary theory and research. The main argument here to develop is that a sociology of evolution should enter at the core of our discipline. This becomes even more important in the era of the Anthropocene as …
Similar History and Different Strategies of ‘Arrival’: Female Yazidi Survivors of the Islamic State in Germany
Border crossing migration always includes (re-)negotiation of world views, home and the meaning of arrival. This negotiation of arrival takes place within the broader societal contexts of the countries of origin and of arrival but is also a mediation with oneself and with social networks. This holds true especially for refugees and émigrés who have to leave their habitual places of living involuntarily. This paper examines the lives of Yazidi wom…
Shifting Boundaries of Belonging and New Migration Dynamics in Europe and China
This book explores the role that boundary making plays in creating a societal understanding of current migration dynamics and, by extension, in legitimising migration regimes. By comparing most recent
La migración transnacional y la perforación de los contenedores de Estados-nación
El argumento principal del artículo es que desde el último cuarto del siglo pasado han surgido diversos fenómenos en la migración internacional que requieren nuevos enfoques de análisis y explicación, de ahí que el marco conceptual de migración transnacional o transmigración pueda ser una propuesta apropiada. Generalmente la migración internacional suele definirse como el cambio permanente o al menos durable del lugar de residencia de un país a o…
Die Zukunft einer religionssensiblen und pluralen Wohlfahrtspflege
Das deutsche System der Wohlfahrtspflege hat sich in über einem Jahrhundert entwickelt und verbindet das Prinzip der Subsidiarität mit einer vielfältigen Verbandslandschaft von Organisationen, die sich jeweils für bestimmte Berufs-, Glaubens- oder Beschäftigtengruppen in vielfältigen gesellschaftlichen Aufgabenbereichen engagieren. In der Wohlfahrtspflege entwickelten sich die an den christlichen Kirchen und anderen relevanten sozialen Gruppen au…
Sewing transnational textures of labour regulation: Towards an Integrative Perspective
Labour regulation is often approached either by methodological nationalism or methodological globalism. Main arguments are that labour and its regulation are increasingly dis-embedded and commodified. As an alternative framing we propose a (neo-)institutionalist multi-level and multi-actors approach. Based on literature review and own studies we argue that there is empirical evidence of transnational labour regulation combining different logics o…
Between clarity and disorientation: Remarks on the unease of Wolfgang Streeck with the 21st century migration
In his essay
The momentum of transnational social spaces in Mexico-US-migration
Debates on border control increased in Europe, especially since the refugee movement in 2015. But to what extent does cross-border migration has its own momentum, independently of labor market conditions and of migration policies? Taking the example of the long-term migration dynamics between Mexico and the USA the article argues that the existence of transnational social spaces is an influencing factor in its own. Therefore, first we review some…
Scientists as Forced Migrants and Refugees: What Can We Learn from the 1930s and 2010s
Scientists as Forced Migrants and Refugees:What Can We Learn from the 1930s and 2010s? Ludger Pries (bio) from the beginning of the twenty-first century up to 2017, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide increased from 40 million to 66 million—that is, by two-thirds. One-third of them are international refugees and two-thirds are internally displaced persons. This is the highest level of displacement on record.1 In 2015 alone, one and …
Discriminação e Racismo na União Europeia: Diagnóstico De Uma Ameaça Negligenciada E Da Investigação Científica Correspondente
Manifestações semanais do controverso movimento PEGIDA (Europeus Patriotas contra a Islamização do Ocidente) estavam ganhando popularidade em diversas cidades alemãs entre o final de 2014 e o final do mês de janeiro de 2015. Os assassinatos ocorridos na sede da revista satírica Charlie Hebdo e no supermercado Hyper Cacher durante a segunda semana de janeiro revelaram a realidade do antissemitismo e provocaram surtos de islamofobia em muitos paíse…
Transnationalisierungsforschung - Ein Programm für das 21. Jahrhundert
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 415 - 418
Trends betrieblicher Produktionsmodernisierung
Trends betrieblicher Produktionsmodernisierung: Chancen und Risiken für Industriearbeit : Expertenberichte aus sieben Branchen
Betrieblicher Wandel in der Risikogesellschaft: Empirische Befunde und Konzeptionelle Überlegungen
Die betriebliche Produktion von Wirklichkeit im Arbeitshandeln
Die industriesoziologische Erforschung des Betriebes konzentrierte sich lange Zeit auf das Vorgefundene Innenleben und die vorhandenen Umweltbeziehungen dieser ‚sozialen Organisation‘. In diesem Aufsatz steht die betriebliche Produktion dieser Strukturen und Prozesse im Mittelpunkt. Der Betrieb wird dabei als ‚Handlungseinheit von stofflicher und sozialer Transformation von Wirklichkeit‘ verstanden. Die sich daraus ergebenden Schlußfolgerungen fü…
El cambio industrial en la República Federal de Alemania como una sociedad de riesgo
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Movilidad en el empleo: Una comparación de trabajo asalariado y por cuenta propia en Puebla
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Transnationale Soziale Räume: Theoretisch-empirische Skizze am Beispiel der Arbeitswanderungen Mexico – USA
In den letzten Jahrzehnten ist ein qualitativer Wandel in der Natur von internationalen Migrationsprozessen zu registrieren, und im Zusammenhang der allgemeinen Globalisierungstendenzen ist von einem neuen „Zeitalter der Migration“ (Castles/Miller 1993) die Rede. Dieser Wandel legt auch die Veränderung des theoretischkonzeptionellen Bezugs- und Fragenrahmens nahe. Traditionell wurden internationale Migrationsprozesse in den Sozialwissenschaften ü…
Institucionalización o desinstitucionalización del curso de vida? Biografía y sociedad como un enfoque integrativo e interdisciplinario
El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar brevemente la manera como se ha utilizado y desarrollado el enfoque "biografía y sociedad" en Alemania. Este enfoque constituye una visión de la realidad social que enfatiza la dominación del tiempo y la relación del individuo con la sociedad. De manera especial, se hace referencia a la hipótesis de la institucionalización del curso de vida y el papel que algunos factores han jugado en ésta, como por ejemp…
Work, Workers and Social Change in Latin America
This paper raises the question of whether work still plays an important role in the social, economic and political changes that have taken place in Latin America since the 1980s. First, we analyze working conditions and employment profiles with emphasis on so-called 'truncated tertiarization' and on the growth of nonwage and women's work. Second, we examine the process of diversification of industrial work resulting from the globalization of worl…
Das Verhältnis von Ausbildung und Erwerb in vergleichender Perspektive: Sequenz, Übergangsphase oder Parallele
Die spezifische Form und Zeitstruktur des Übergangs von Individuen aus dem Bildungs- in das Beschäftigungssystem ist besonders deshalb von großem sozialwissenschaftlichen Interesse, weil diese Statuspassage einen prägenden Einfluß auf den gesamten weiteren Erwerbs- und Lebensverlauf hat. Für früh industrialisierte Länder stellt sich dieser Übergang als zeitliche Sequenz von Ausbildung und Erwerb, allenfalls als kurzfristige „Überlappungsphase“ da…
Transmigranten“ als ein Typ von Arbeitswanderern in pluri-lokalen sozialen Räumen
Internationale Arbeitsmigration kann theoretisch zu drei verschiedenen Möglichkeiten des Verhältnisses zwischen der Herkunftsregion und dem Ankunftsland führen, wobei die jeweiligen Ausformungen dieser Beziehung sowohl von den aktiven Migranten und ihrem Primärgruppenumfeld selbst, als auch von dem rechtlichen, politischen, wirtschaftlichen und sozial-kulturellen setting der Herkunfts- und Ankunftsregion beeinflußt werden. Die erste typische Bezi…
Globalisierung und Wandel internationaler Unternehmen: Konzeptionelle Überlegungen am Beispiel der deutschen Automobilkonzerne
Internationale Migration
Wie vorübergehende oder dauerhafte Migration über die geographischen Grenzen sozialer und politischer Einheiten hinweg ist so alt wie die Menschheit selbst. In Deutschland bekamen grenzüberschreitende Wanderungsprozesse mit den tiefgreifenden Veränderungen in Osteuropa und mit der Stabilisierung der Europäischen Union eine neue Bedeutung. Gemessen an dieser veränderten Wirklichkeit hat die sozialwissenÝ schaftliche Migrationsforschung in Europa u…
Klaus J. Bade: Europa in Bewegung. Migration vom späten 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart
The Disruption of Social and Geographic Space: Mexican-US Migration and the Emergence of Transnational Social Spaces
In the last decade of the 20th century globalization as a key concept in social sciences and political debate indicated a general shift in the (perception of the) relation between the social and the spatial. At the same time, in migration studies, as a central field for studying this ongoing reconfiguration of social and spatial relations, the focus of transnationalism became very promising. Based on empirical research and conceptual reflections …
Transnationalisierung der sozialen Welt
La migración transnacional y la perforación de los contenedores de Estados-nación
El argumento principal del artículo es que desde el último cuarto del siglo pasado han surgido diversos fenómenos en la migración internacional que requieren nuevos enfoques de análisis y explicación, de ahí que el marco conceptual de migración transnacional o transmigración pueda ser una propuesta apropiada. Generalmente la migración internacional suele definirse como el cambio permanente o al menos durable del lugar de residencia de un país a o…
Markus Promberger: Das VW-Modell und seine Nachfolger. Pioniere einer neuartigen Beschäftigungspolitik
Emerging production systems in the transnationalisation of German car manufacturers: Adaptation, application or innovation
Based on case studies, this article seeks to determine whether or not German car manufacturers are exporting a ‘German production model’ to overseas plants and to what extent the overseas operations have a reciprocal effect on production methods in the originating country. It is argued that the most adequate analytical concept is one that emphasises interest‐driven organisational learning processes
Determining the Causes and Durability of Transnational Labour Migration between Mexico and the United States: Some Empirical Findings
While the field of transnational migration studies is expanding, one important challenge is to broaden research from a mainly qualitative approach proving the existence of transnational migration phenomena toward efforts to quantify transnational migration and pay more attention to analysing its internal dynamics and interrelationships with other (ideal) types of migration. Based on a qualitative and quantitative empirical study of (trans)migrant…
Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim: Wir und die Anderen. Vom Blick der Deutschen auf Migranten und Minderheiten
Configurations of geographic and societal spaces: A Sociological Proposal Between 'Methodological Nationalism' and the 'Spaces of Flows
The societal practices, symbol systems and artefacts that form sociology's field of study are shifting in their spatial reach. Terms like internationalization, globalization, glocalization or transnationalization denote an (at least perceived) increase in the flow of information, commodities and capital across nation-state borders as well as an unprecedented ease of human spatial mobility. Situated in the wider research programme of transnational…
Shifting Patterns of Labor Regulation: Highly Qualified Knowledge Workers in German New Media Companies
In addition to changing ways of doing business and managing work, the new economy has affected the way that (generally) highly qualified employees participate in company decision-making processes. The research project entitled 'Changing forms of labor regulation?' focused on the relationship between individual and collective forms of representation, as well as between regulation at the state, collective bargaining and company levels. It also inve…
Transnationalisierung und soziale Ungleichheit
AuszugJede Form der Untersuchung und Messung sozialer Ungleichheit benötigt raumzeitliche Bezugseinheiten, auf die sich die Bestimmung von Klassenlage, Status, horizontaler und vertikaler Selbst- und Fremdverortung sowie der Verteilung von Teilhabechancen bezieht. Als Referenzrahmen dienen dabei normalerweise Entitäten wie Gemeinden, Städte und vor allem Nationalgesellschaften, also räumlich-territorial eindeutig begrenzbare Ganzheiten. Durch die…
Erwerbsregulierung in Einer Globalisierten Welt
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