This edited volume explores migration movements to Norway, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Portugal from Brazil, Morocco and Ukraine, focusing on how the migration processes of yesterday influence those of today. The central analytical tool for this undertaking is the concept of feedback. This volume identifies various feedback mechanisms that initiate, perpetuate and reverse migration movements. It pays attention to the role of personal networks, but it also moves beyond networks by analysing the role of institutions, macro-level factors and forms of broadcast feedback operating through impersonal channels. Based on extensive surveys and in-depth interviews, it changes our understanding of how and why patterns of international migration change over time.

Autorentext
Oliver Bakewell is Director of the International Migration Institute and Associate Professor at the Department of International Development, University of Oxford, UK.

Godfried Engbersen is Professor of General Sociology at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (EUR), the Netherlands. He is Research Director of the Sociology Department and Director of the research group Citizenship, Migration & the City (CIMIC) of the EUR. His current research activities focus on irregular migration, transnational citizenship, social inequality and labour migration from Central and Eastern Europe.

Maria Lucinda Fonseca is Full Professor of Human Geography and Migration Studies at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. She is also the coordinator of the Research Group MIGRARE - Migration, Spaces and Societies at the Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG) at the same institute.

Cindy Horst is Research Professor in Migration and Refugee Studies at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway. Her current research interests include: mobility in conflict; diaspora; humanitarianism; refugee protection; transnational civic engagement; and theorizing on social transformation. She is particularly interested in methodological innovations that allow for critical and ethical conscious research engagement, through shared anthropology and multi-sited ethnography.

Zusammenfassung

This edited volume asks how the arrival of migrants at one time influences the decisions of those considering migration later. Through a set of case studies of migration in twelve 'corridors', it shows how different forms of feedback by different actors and through different channels contribute to our understanding of diverging migration flows.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Feedback in Migration Processes; Oliver Bakewell; Agnieszka Kubal; Sonia Pereira
2. Exploring twelve migration corridors: rationale, methodology, and overview; Jørgen Carling; Dominique Jolivet
3. New roles for social networks in migration? Assistance in Brazilian migration to Portugal and The Netherlands; Masja van Meeteren; Sonia Pereira
4. Online Feedback in Migration Networks; Rianne Dekker; Godfried Engbersen; Marije Faber
5. The impact of class on feedback mechanisms. Brazilian migration to Norway, Poland and the UK; Cindy Horst; Sonia Pereira; Olivia Sheringham
6. The economic crisis as a feedback generating mechanism? Brazilian and Ukrainian migration to Portugal; Maria Lucinda Fonseca; Alina Esteves; Jennifer McGarrigle
7. From bridgeheads to gate closers. How migrant networks contribute to declining migration from Morocco to the Netherlands; Erik Snel; Godfried Engbersen; Marije Faber
8. Making and breaking a chain: migrants' decisions about helping others migrate; Jørgen Carling
9. Broadcasting migration outcomes; Oliver Bakewell; Dominique Jolivet
10. Migration mechanisms of the middle range. On the concept of reverse cumulative causation; Godfried Engbersen; Erik Snel; Alina Esteves
11. Beyond networks: insights on feedback and mechanisms of the middle range; Godfried Engbersen; Erik Snel; Cindy Horst