Social capital and the dynamics of temporary labour migration from Poland to Germany.

Autor/in	Kalter, Frank
Titel	Social capital and the dynamics of temporary labour migration from Poland to Germany. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Sozialkapital und die Dynamik der zeitweisen Arbeitsmigration von Polen nach Deutschland.
Quelle	In: European sociological review, 27 (2011) 5, S. 555-569Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0266-7215; 1468-2672
DOI	10.1093/esr/jcq025
Schlagwörter	Motivation; Migration; Ost-West-Migration; Saisonarbeiter; Soziales Netzwerk; Saisonarbeit; Sozialkapital; Arbeitsmigration; Pendelwanderung; Aufenthaltsdauer; Pole
Abstract	"This article tests the popular social capital hypothesis in the context of recent temporary labour migration from Poland to Germany. It relies on data from the Polish Migration Project, which, following the model of the prominent Mexican Migration Project, collected rich longitudinal information on residents of four Polish communities in 2005. Discrete event history analyses are used to test, first, whether since 1989 prior migration experience of others indeed had an independent impact on the likelihood of making a working trip to Germany and, second, in how far this can explain the observed dynamics over time. In the course of the analyses it turns out that some of the variables frequently used as indicators of migration-specific social capital seem to be problematic. Thus, besides adding the Polish-German experience to discussions on the role of social capital in explaining contemporary migration, the article also contributes to general methodological issues involved." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku). Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Längsschnitt; Befragung. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1989 bis 2005.
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2012/2