GEOG 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Ethnic Enclave, Social Capital
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Charles tilly: it is not people who migrate, but networks . As networks expand, migration becomes less se"ective". Networks of people create institutions (e. g ngos, businesses) that facilitate migration. Governments have a hard time controlling networks. Individual pioneer" engages in temporary labour migration, sends remittances. Prolonged stay, and individual: stays connected with sending society, but also connected with receiving society, social clubs, religious practices, aid organizations etc. Other family members migrate: gradual development of an ethnic enclave, progression towards institutional completeness. Permanent settlement and minority community: can be positive: inclusion, or negative: exclusion. Once number of network connections in an origin area reaches a critical threshold, migration becomes self-perpetuating because each act of migration itself creaties the social structure needed to sustain it. Leads to culture of migration : migration as a right of passage" for young people. I. e more comprehensive than world systems perspective discussed earlier.
