Ego Network Analysis of Social Capital, General and Health-Related Networks Between Migrants and Non-Migrants in Portugal
Ego Network Analysis of Social Capital, General and Health-Related Networks Between Migrants and Non-Migrants in Portugal

Author(s): Paulo Nascimento, Magda Sofia Roberto, Ana Sofia Santos
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Ego; Network; Analysis; Social Capital; General; Health-Related; Networks; Migrants; Non-Migrants; Portugal;
Summary/Abstract: Migration is a dominant feature of human activity (Scott & Scott, 1989). Apart from a variety of reasons initiating transnational movements, the migratory experience is perpetuated across time and space: those who migrate will be involved in disrupted and reconstructed "sets of interpersonal ties that connect migrants, former migrants, and non-migrants in origin and destination areas through ties of kinship, friendship, and shared community of origin" (Massey et al., 1993, p. 448). Transnational movements can be perceived as social spaces, combining social and symbolic ties, positions in networks, and organizations: by encompassing more than physical features, social capital emerges as the resources inherent in social and symbolic ties (Faist, 1998). The concept of transnational social movements puts migrants at the centre of the social space, as nodes develop formal, informal, vertical, and horizontal ties with alters, in a specific time; being migration a process that considers multiple contexts (Levitt & Schiller, 2004; Lubbers et al., 2020).

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