Labour Migration and Social Networks Participation in Southern Mozambique

Economica ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan M. Gallego ◽  
Mariapia Mendola
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Labour Migration

scholarly journals Seeing Migration like a State: The case of irregular Indonesian migrant workers deported from Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benny Hari Juliawan
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Undocumented Migrants ◽  
Regulatory State ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Migration Regimes

The corridor linking Indonesia with Malaysia is particularly rife with transborder mobility, including large-scale labour migration. While irregularity has long been a major feature of these flows, much of the movement now falls under the migration regimes adopted by Malaysia and Indonesia. Long-established casual migration flows collide with recently codified norms and, as a result, oscillate between regularity and irregularity. This paper explores the following questions: How does the regulatory state view and handle undocumented migrants? How does it interact with established social networks that have facilitated irregular labour migration? Particular attention is given to the distinction between the categories of deportable criminals and victims deserving protection, as ascribed by state actors to certain groups of migrants. Based on interviews with twelve deported Florenese migrant workers, the paper discusses how the Indonesian-Malaysian migration regime seeks to shape mobility. It argues that shifting categorisations reflect political imperatives more than the migrants’ needs that prompt them to migrate in the first place. 

scholarly journals Reconfiguring the culture of kinship: poor people's tactics during South Africa's transition from apartheid

Africa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 88 (S1) ◽  
pp. S90-S116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew D. Spiegel
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
South African ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Social Field ◽  
Urban Settlement ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Working People ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Ethnographic Data

AbstractOne product of the vicissitudes of apartheid-era labour migration, of persistent constraints on urban settlement and of continuing post-apartheid oscillating migration between South Africa's cities and countryside has been extensive domestic fluidity for many South African working people. As a consequence, they have repeatedly created new social networks across the urban–rural social field. In making sense of those networks by reconfiguring their notions of kinship and clanship, they have demonstrated the significance of kinship as an identity idiom. Based on research in Cape Town's largest African township during the early 1990s period of transition from apartheid, the article shows how, through people's use of notions of clanship, they have recursively reconstructed their idiom of kinship in a context of systemic instability. This article uses ethnographic data from that time and context to argue that we need to understand kinship as a cultural resource, pragmatically used and reinvented over and over again, each time emerging anew. In doing so, the article shows that kinship is not a fixed, recordable structure and that, like so many aspects of culture, it is repeatedly reinvented and reconstituted in order to address pragmatic circumstances.

Labour Migration Within India: Motivations and Social Networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Selim Reja ◽  
Bhaswati Das
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Payment Systems ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Migrant Groups

Large-scale interstate labour migration within India is facilitated by the freedom of movement for citizens within this huge nation state. However, such internal labour migration within India remains largely unstudied and offers huge scope for gaining significant new knowledge. Focusing particularly on migrant construction workers from West Bengal moving to Kerala, this article specifically examines the motivations of these migrants and the role of social networks in the development of such migration streams. A field survey in Kerala indicates that Kerala’s Gulf connection and rapid demographic transition have resulted in significant reduction of local supplies of labour, thus attracting more migrants from other states in India due to better job opportunities, higher wages and good payment systems. Networks within migrant groups, especially friends’ contacts, are found to be the strongest factor in supporting this migration process.

Multilayer Social Networks

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark E. Dickison ◽  
Matteo Magnani ◽  
Luca Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Multilayer Social Networks
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