Reconsidering the Importance of Social Capital for the Subjective Well-Being of Migrants in the Digital Era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15537686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diana Mariana Popa (0000-0001-8529-9416, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 543-550 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | MIGRATION LETTERS (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-8984 • E-ISSN: 1741-8992 |
| Publisher | Dewspublication (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.33182/ml.v16i4.550 |
| OpenAlex | W2979127235 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
Social capital is an often-used indicator when measuring and explaining the happiness or life satisfaction levels of migrants and it is frequently measured with the item “How often do you socially meet with friends, relatives or colleagues?”. Migration studies should reconsider the weight that social capital (measured according to the frequency of socially meeting relevant others) has in the subjective well-being of migrants seen that the paradigm of the uprooted migrant has been replaced by the paradigm of the connected migrant. The purpose of this article is to show that in the digital era, the subjective well-being of the connected migrant is not influenced by physically meeting friends, relatives and colleagues as much as it was for the uprooted migrant. As supporting case study, results about the impact of social capital on the life satisfaction of East European migrants are presented
Capital (architecture · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Happiness · Life satisfaction · Migrant workers · Political science · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Psychology · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Social Capital and Happiness in the United States
Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
Refugee integration and social media
Connected migrants
Complicit surveillance, interveillance, and the question of cosmopolitanism
Five Questions for Digital Migration Studies
Comparing Life Satisfaction of Immigrants and Natives Across Europe
The Second Generation in Western Europe
The Happy Few
The connected migrant
A Dimensional Approach to Measuring Social Capital
The Strength of Weak Ties
Social capital and economic development
Is happiness relative
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |