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Ryan, Louise (2023) Social networks and migration: relocations, relationships and resources. Global Migration and Social Change . Policy Press, Bristol University Press, Bristol (UK). ISBN 9781529213546 (Hardback) ; 9781529213560 (E-Pub)
This book aims to advance qualitative social network analysis within migration studies through specific epistemological, methodological and empirical innovations.
Developing my framework of telling network stories, I offer epistemological innovation to gain nuanced understandings of dynamic inter-personal relationships, the resources flowing between particular social ties and the relative social location of the actors within specific spatio-temporal contexts.
Empirically innovative, this book brings together, for the first time, data generated over twenty years across my varied studies with migrants from diverse backgrounds. Focusing on London, I draw on research with migrants who migrated from the 1940s through to the 2010s. Exploring rich, qualitative data, I analyse how migrants forge new ties in new places, while simultaneously negotiating long distance relationships transnationally. Particular attention is given to the field of employment and the role of networks in how migrants have accessed jobs and developed careers across various sectors of the labour market.
Moreover, using mixed methods, including visualisation, as well longitudinal methods from follow-up interviews, I employment methodological innovations to understand how networks of relationships evolve and change over time and through the life course, especially in the ageing process.
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