Paris

“A home from home of all nations” Geographical mobility, media usage and personal networks

among qualified migrants in Seville (Spain)

Isidro Maya Jariego & Romina Cachia International Congress Homeland Connections. E-diasporas Atlas – A century of transnationalism.

Fondation maison des sciences de l’homme. Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration. Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, 23-25 May.

Partimos juntos a ver aquella fénix del orbe,que debajo de sus alas tantos hoy leños recogegran Babilonia de España, mapa de todas naciones, donde el flamenco a su Gantey el inglés halla a su Londres; escala del Nuevo Mundo,cuyos ricos escalones, enladrillados de plata, son navíos de alto borde.

Luis de Góngora y Argote, Las firmezas de Isabela (1610)

The Great Babylon of Spain

Presentation Plan

• Research Questions• Theoretical Background• Participants and Method• Analysis• Preliminary Conclusions

Research Questions

How do mobile people:• reconfigure their networks to stay connected

with close ties that are far away• fabricate a network of local ties

• and combine local and distant ties in a personal network on which they can rely for

different kinds of support?

Theoretical Background

Theoretical Background

Theoretical Background

Presentation Plan

• Research Questions• Theoretical Background• Participants and Methods• Analysis• Preliminary Conclusions

Participants: Skilled migrants living in Seville N=95

Gender: 70% Female30% Male

Age: 41% - under 30 yrs45% - between 31-50 yrs14% - over 51 yrs

Stay: 43% (less than a year)27% (1-5 years)4% (6-10 years)25% (over 10 years)

Snowball Sampling

(n=19) (n=33)

(n=25) (n=18)

Data Collection: First Phase

-Electronic Document sent by email

-Multiple support index:-Emotional -Instrumental-Social-Travel-Other

-30 Alters

-Five Name Interpreters:-Nationality-Frequency of contact: F2F / Mobile / Email / SNS /Voip

Data Collection: Second Phase

-Structured Interview

-Four major areas:-Use of New media-Sense of Community

-SCI (Chavis et al. 1986)-Networks

-Free hand drawing-Groups-Visualisation Vennmaker-Name Interpreters

-Demographics

Flamenco

Orchestra

Erasmus

IPTS

Foreigners residing in

Seville

(n=95)

Participants

Japanese Flamenco Artists: (n=19)

Erasmus Students: (n=33)

Partners of IPTS (n=25)

Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra:

(n=18)

30 Alteri per respondent435 relations

95 respondents x 30 alteri

=

2850 Alteri

Presentation Plan

• Research Questions• Theoretical Background• Participants and Method• Analysis• Preliminary Conclusions

Daily Usage of Media: Respondents n=95

Mobile/Phone Email Social Networking Sites Skype Twitter Blog0

20

40

60

80

100

Flamenco Erasmus IPTS Orchestra

Case Studies

Support * Location * Nationality

Support * Location * Nationality

Support * Location * Nationality

Support * Location * Nationality

Erasmus

IPTS

Flamenco

Orchestra

Degree

Spaniards

+ -

+

-

Typologies of participants

Multiplexity of Support * Media

Multiple Support (Emotional,

Instrumental, Social, Travel)

Alteri & Social Support Typologies

Strength of the tie * Media usage

Clusters (distribution of ties in personal networks)

Clusters * Community

Cluster type * Media usage

Presentation Plan

• Research Questions• Theoretical Background• Participants• Method• Analysis• Preliminary Conclusions

Preliminary Conclusions

• The frequency of use of different media with an alter indirectly indicates the strength of the relationship. [Degree]

• However, for this case multiplexity is slightly negatively correlated with f2f contact. [Multiplicity]

• On the other hand, multiplicity of alters with usual f2f contacts is lower than usual. [Duration of the tie]

• Local insertion seems affected by institutional context, previous experiences of mobility and rate of change in the relational community.

Preliminary Conclusions• Maintaining strong links through SNS and Voip is a

peculiarity of mobile people.• Phone and email seem to be use to reinforce

strong links, while SNS and Voip are more an alternative when f2f interaction is less usual.

• SNS is used actively by temporal students to maintain contact, mainly with distant ties, whereas is not used when there exist relevant support in the context of personal visits and travel.

• Many thanks for your attention• Questions?

• email: isidromj@us.es

"If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far, go together“

African Proverb

Anexes

Location of Alters

Back

Nationality of Alters

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Social Support derived from Alteri

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Nationality of Alters

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Location of Alters

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Visualisations of Networks

Friends SchoolWork

Family Scotland

Friends ScotlandClose Friends

Free hand-drawn Network

Friends

School

Work

Family Scotland

Friends Scotland

Close Friends

Vennmaker Network

Friends

Close Friends

Work

Family Scotland

Friends Scotland

School

Ucinet Network

Las redes personales cambian en contextos de transición ecológica…