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Geographical repartition of migrants personal networks in Catalonia. José Luis Molina, Carlos Lozares Colina & Miranda J Lubbers (UAB)
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Geographical repartition of migrants personal networks in Catalonia José Luis Molina, Carlos Lozares Colina & Miranda J Lubbers (UAB) Research project funded by the MICINN (CSO2008-01470/SOCI), Estudio comparado de casos sobre la influencia mútua entre el capital e integración sociales y la inserción, estabilidad, promoción y cualificación en el empleo. Workshop Personal Networks and Spatial Mobility, 28th May 2010, Barcelona.
Research questions… • What are the differences between “nationals” and “migrants” in terms of the geographical repartition of their social networks? • What are the role of neighborhoods in Catalonia?
Project CASCIVI • Funded by the MICINN (2009-2011). IP: Carlos Lozares Colina, QUIT, Departament de Sociologia, UAB. • Quota sample stratified by place of residence, target group (and age). • Barcelona (capital), Sant Feliu (Metropolitan Area) and Balaguer (Small city). • 416 interviews with people living in Catalonia, born in Catalonia, Spain, Morocco and Ecuador (the two main migrants groups in Catalonia). • Fieldwork: sept. 2009-may 2010. • Structured interview with EgoNet. Flexible name generator asking for 30 alters (active contacts), their characteristics and the pattern of relationships among them.
Strong and weak ties … • A roster of 30 active contacts overepresent strong ties although weak ties are also captured.
Geographic repartition of active contacts • Social relations of people born in Catalonia are essentially local: in general over 70% of the contacts living in the same city or area of influence ("glocalization", Hampton and Wellman, 2002). • In the case of the two immigrant groups studied, the situation is different with a 50.9% (Ecuador), and a 57.7% (Morocco) contacts living in another town, not necessarily the country of origin.
Age >55, with parents born in Catalonia. Non-local active contacts (25,2%)
Age 25-55, with parents born in Catalonia. Non-local active contacts (30,6%)
Age 25-55, parents born in the rest of Spain. Non-local active contacts (34,6%)
Neighborhoods … • Now we can undertand better why migrants have less active contacts in the neighborhoods (there is not gender differences).
Where do they live in the case of migrants? Ego= migrant + alter (provide support), N= 2.288.
Ergo … • Immigrants have smaller local networks and their suppliers of support do not live in the same town .... and hence they do not live in the same neighborhood.