Telling network stories

Researching Migrants' Changing Social Relations in Places Over Time

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ID4263185
AuthorsLouise Ryan (0000-0001-5957-2490, School of Social Professions London Metropolitan University 166–220 Holloway Road London N7 8DB UK)
Year2021
Volume21
Issue3
Pages567-584
Publication date2021-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/glob.12295
OpenAlexW3040959902
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited46

This article is situated at the nexus of migration research and qualitative social network analysis (SNA). While migration scholars often engage with networks simply as metaphors, I go further by examining how a thorough engagement with qualitative SNA can contribute to migration research in at least three key ways. First, exploring changing relational ties over time and across different places, including transnationally, I demonstrate that qualitative SNA offers new insights into how migrants make sense of these dynamic relationships. Second, following Dahinden (2016), I examine how using networks as a data collection method can help to unsettle the a priori ethnic lens in researching migration. Moreover, building on the pioneering work of network scholars such as Mische and White, I aim to make a methodological contribution by analysing how social networks are co-constructed as stories and pictures in research encounters

Data science · Ethnic group · Interpersonal ties · Qualitative research · Situated · Social capital · Social media · Social network analysis · Social science · Sociology · World Wide Web · Anthropology · Computer Science · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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