Panel studies and migration

Rindfuss, Ronald R.; Kaneda, Toshiko; Chattopadhyay, Arpita; Sethaput, Chanya

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.03.005

Cited by 32 publications

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“…This result is suggestive of mobility and residential patterns observed elsewhere, which indicate that co-ethnic clusters create social relations that may act to delay out-migration (e.g., Kritz and Nogle, 1994;Chitose, 2001;Kritz and Gurak, 2001). Social ties are also relevant for determining who among eligible migrants is found and interviewed (Entwisle et al, 2005;Rindfuss et al, 2007). Although the findings are not conclusive, our study results are indicative that migrants living in regional clusters are, to some extent, offered with ethnically supportive infrastructure as described in the ethnic enclave literature.…”

Section: Characteristics Of Migrant Clusters In Bangkok and The Eastesupporting

confidence: 66%

Residential Clustering among Nang Rong Migrants in Urban Settings of Thailand

Jampaklay

Korinek

Entwisle

2007

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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This study examines the residential patterns of rural-urban migrants in Thailand. The analysis takes advantage of a rich dataset that followed migrants from rural Nang Rong, a district in the Isan region, to the Bangkok metropolitan area and the Eastern Seaboard. Findings document substantial residential clustering: almost half of the migrants interviewed in 2000 and 2001 lived in neighborhoods where 80 percent or more of their neighbors came from Isan. Migrants with less than a secondary education, those working in factory jobs, and those working with other migrants from Isan were more likely to be living in Isan-concentrated neighborhoods, net of other variables.

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Section: Characteristics Of Migrant Clusters In Bangkok and The Eastesupporting

confidence: 66%

Residential Clustering among Nang Rong Migrants in Urban Settings of Thailand

Jampaklay

Korinek

Entwisle

2007

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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“…Kalton 2001). 4 Migrants in particular are challenging to locate but network approaches are an effective means of finding them (Rindfuss et al 2007). In Figure 1, the origin community in Mexico (represented by circle “A”) is in the upper left hand corner of the figure and the destination community in the U.S. (circle “B”) is in the bottom right hand corner.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Binational Social Networks and Assimilation

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While the concept of transnationalism has gained widespread popularity among scholars as a way to describe immigrants’ long-term maintenance of cross-border ties to their origin communities, critics have argued that the overall proportion of immigrants who engage in transnational behavior is low and that, as a result, transnationalism has little sustained effect on the process of immigrant adaptation and assimilation. In this paper, we argue that a key shortcoming in the current empirical debate on transnationalism is the lack of data on the social networks that connect migrants to each other and to non-migrants in communities of origin. To address this shortcoming, our analysis uses unique bi-national data on the social network connecting an immigrant sending community in Guanajuato, Mexico, to two destination areas in the United States. We test for the effect of respondents’ positions in cross-border networks on their migration intentions and attitudes towards the United States using data on the opinions of their peers, their participation in cross border and local communication networks, and their structural position in the network. The results indicate qualified empirical support for a network-based model of transnationalism; in the U.S. sample we find evidence of network clustering consistent with peer effects, while in the Mexican sample we find evidence of the importance of cross-border communication with friends.

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“…None Buriram), reaching about 70 percent of eligible migrants (Rindfuss et al 2007). Previous research establishes that missing information from unlocatable migrants is unlikely to bias results on migration patterns (Garip and Curran 2009 In our analysis, we use village-level measures as a proxy for homophily, because village homogeneity is available in each year, whereas homophily can be estimated reliably only for one year (2000, when data were collected on rice-harvesting networks among households).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%