Beyond Networks Feedback in International Migration [Hardcover]

This edited volume explores migration movements to Norway, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Portugal from Brazil, Morocco and Ukraine, focusing on how the migration processes of yesterday influence those of today. The central analytical tool for this undertaking is the concept of feedback. This volume identifies various feedback mechanisms that initiate, perpetuate and reverse migration movements. It pays attention to the role of personal networks, but it also moves beyond networks by analysing the role of institutions, macro-level factors and forms of broadcast feedback operating through impersonal channels. Based on extensive surveys and in-depth interviews, it changes our understanding of how and why patterns of international migration change over time.

This edited volume asks how the arrival of migrants at one time influences the decisions of those considering migration later. Through a set of case studies of migration in twelve 'corridors', it shows how different forms of feedback by different actors and through different channels contribute to our understanding of diverging migration flows.

1. Introduction: Feedback in Migration Processes; Oliver Bakewell; Agnieszka Kubal; Sonia Pereira
2. Exploring twelve migration corridors: rationale, methodology, and overview; J?rgen Carling; Dominique Jolivet
3. New roles for social networks in migration? Assistance in Brazilian migration to Portugal and The Netherlands; Masja van Meeteren; Sonia Pereira
4. Online Feedback in Migration Networks; Rianne Dekker; Godfried Engbersen; Marije Faber
5. The impact of class on feedback mechanisms. Brazilian migration to Norway, Poland and the UK; Cindy Horst; Sonia Pereira; Olivia Sheringham
6. The economic crisis as a feedback generating mechanism? Brazilian and Ukrainian migration to Portugal; Maria Lucinda Fonseca; Alina Esteves; Jennifer McGarrigle
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