Moving Through Social Networks: The Case of Armenian Migrants in the Czech Republic
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | International Migration |
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| Web | http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/122574236/HTMLSTART |
| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | migration; social networks; Armenia; Czech Republic |
| Description | This paper brings attention to the role of social networks in the migration of asylum seekers and explores how the embeddedness of the migrants in social networks both facilitates and constrains their mobility in different phases of the migration process. It reconstructs the migration paths of eight Armenian migrant families who arrived in the Czech Republic as asylum seekers during the 1990s and the beginning of the twenty-first century. By examining the narrated stories of the Armenian migrants it shows that social networks formed an important context for employing various migration strategies in all phases of the migration process, and that the meaning and character of migrants' social networks changed over time. |
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