SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Human Capital, Transnationalism, Social Network
Document Summary
Basic idea: people find out assimilation could not help to understand lot of special people. 1. self initiated vs. active recruitment: not like active recruitment. 2. alternative economic adaptation: in the past, we thought of finding better job here. Now utilize the advantage and have economy tie with someone back home. 3. dependency: this kind of transnationalism continue because of transnational linkage. Economic transnational linkage can only occur in the larger transnational linkage. First need to maintain the transnational linkage then the transnational tie. In the one hand trying to integrate into the new country at the other hand find migrants trying to participate in the political action back home. Motivate people to vote for certain parties back home. Also involve in the political process back home. It is not only about the host country but also the home country. Entry point of discussion is about the transnational social field in the two places.
