Social Capital and the Dynamics of Temporary Labour Migration from Poland to Germany

Kalter, Frank

doi:10.1093/esr/jcq025

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“…At first glance this seems to fit migrants (Tyldum and Johnston 2014). Many migrant populations can identify others as members of their own group, and the very act of migration operates through social network channels (Kalter 2011;Massey et al 1999). Migrants may have undocumented or tenuous legal status in the country of destination, and may therefore be more likely to avoid interviews from unknown others (Agadjanian and Zotova 2012;Montealegre et al 2013).…”

Section: Rds and Migrant Surveysmentioning

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Adapting chain referral methods to sample new migrants

Platt¹,

Luthra²,

Frere-Smith³

2015

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Section: Rds and Migrant Surveysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adapting chain referral methods to sample new migrants

Platt¹,

Luthra²,

Frere-Smith³

2015

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“…The greater ease of communication afforded by cell phones and Skype (Dekker and Engbersen, 2012), not to mention cheap flights (Williams and Baláž, 2009), should also result in a rich web of transnational ties, providing information and social and economic support to the potential migrant (Kalter, 2011). This in turn enables straightforward exchange of remittances for family members strewn across borders, as well as the easier maintenance of transnational family and caring responsibilities, thereby encouraging the cumulative causation central to the new economics of labour migration framework.…”

Section: Ease Of Movement: Diversity Of Migration Motivations and DIVmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While in the UK, Poles are relatively dispersed across different areas of the country, London nevertheless continues to provide the primary starting point for those at the beginning of their stay -and this is even more the case for Dublin. In addition, major cities will provide a greater diversity of migrant types compared to those who are linked into particular employment relations with locally specific industries or who, in Germany, return to border regions, and have thus been the focus of studies on seasonal migration or migration networks (Kalter, 2011, Korczyńska, 2003. Hence, while our samples are not fully representative of new Poles in Germany, UK or Ireland, or even, arguably, the Netherlands (due to the partial coverage of early registration), they do capture the diversity of migrant experience both within and across countries, as the analysis below shows.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Like the qualitative research the few quantitative studies have also only focused on one receiving country context (e.g. Kalter, 2011, Drinkwater et al, 2009, thus missing the diversity and range of the 'new' migration across Europe. There is therefore a growing need to extend qualitative research on migrant heterogeneity to large-scale samples in multiple contexts and to test its implications for migrant outcomes.…”

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Migrant Diversity, Migration Motivations and Early Integration: The Case of Poles in Germany, the Netherlands, London and Dublin

2014

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The expansion of the European Union eastwards in 2004, with an ensuing massive increase in East-West migration from the accession countries has been represented as a new migration system of a kind unique in recent migration history, with its specific features of rights of movement and low mobility and information costs accompanying persistent East-West wage differentials. In principle, it provides an ideal context in which to develop understandings of the 'new migration' reflecting complex motivations and migration trajectories as well as chain migration and transnational lives. Despite a rapid expansion of research in this area, new insights into the complexities of mixed migration motivations and migrant heterogeneity have tended to be focused on country-specific qualitative studies.In this paper we utilise a unique, four-country data source covering over 3,500 Poles migrating to Germany, the Netherlands, London and Dublin in 2009-2010, to enable the quantitative characterization of the new migration. Exploiting information on pre-migration experience as well as expressed migration motivations and post-migration structural, subjective and social measures of integration in the receiving country, we conduct a three-stage analysis. First we employ latent class analysis to allocate the migrants to six migrant types. Second, we link these migrant types to pre-migration characteristics and estimate multinomial logit models for class membership. Third, controlling for these pre-migration characteristics we are able to explore how the migrant types are associated with measures of integration.We reveal substantial heterogeneity among migrants and some evolving 'new' migrant types alongside more traditional labour migrants. We show how these types are associated with differences in pre-migration human capital, region of origin and employment experience and with post-migration social and subjective integration in receiving societies.

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“…For instance, only this design makes it possible to address the question whether people who possess more social capital are actually more likely to use it. Otherwise, one could argue that social capital effects are a mere artifact of unobserved heterogeneity (Kalter 2010) or a result of the homophilious formation of friendship networks (Mouw 2006).…”

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8 The education of migrants and their children across the life course

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Pillar 4 of the German National Education Panel Study addresses migrants' and their descendants' acquisition of education across the life course. Apart from documenting the evolution of ethnic educational inequalities throughout the educational career by focusing on different origin groups and distinct indicators of educational success, we seek to uncover the origins of these disparities. Beyond the mechanisms associated with social inequalities, pillar 4 aims to disentangle those processes that impact particularly on immigrants and their children and to assess their empirical relevance. We apply the prominent distinction between primary and secondary effects to students of immigrant origin and then link this distinction to a general resources framework that we further adapt for migrants. This leads to the crucial debate within integration 122 C. Kristen et al.research on whether the resources and opportunities available within the migrant group foster educational success. One stream within this debate refers to the contested question whether proficiency in the language of the country of origin influences competence development in the country of residence. Another important stream concerns the role of ethnic networks and social capital for educational success. We discuss the mechanisms predicting either beneficial, neutral, or harmful effects and present available empirical evidence. Based on this account, we highlight the analysis potential of the data gathered in pillar 4.

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Social Capital and the Dynamics of Temporary Labour Migration from Poland to Germany

Cited by 45 publications

References 14 publications

Adapting chain referral methods to sample new migrants

Adapting chain referral methods to sample new migrants

Migrant Diversity, Migration Motivations and Early Integration: The Case of Poles in Germany, the Netherlands, London and Dublin

8 The education of migrants and their children across the life course

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