Thomas Faist - The volume and dynamics of international migration and transnational social spaces

The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces
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In Memory of My Parents, Anton and Gertrud Faist

Like all original works, this book owes a great deal of its content to the thoughts and efforts of persons other than the author. I would especially like to mention the participants in the project on theories of international migration and development that was part of a research programme Migration, Population and Poverty. The project was mainly based at the Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (CEIFO), University of Stockholm. Wean interdisciplinary group of economists, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientistshad a chance to develop our thoughts revolving around the central question: Why do most people stay immobile? Although the question of immobility among potential migrants had been repeatedly posed, it had never received a systematic treatment. While writing a disciplinary chapter and the concluding chapter of our group book, I developed the basis of some of the main thoughts presented here. The results of the group work appeared in International Migration, Immobility and Development. Multidisciplinary Perspectives (1997), edited jointly by Tomas Hammar, Grete Brochmann, Kristof Tamas, and myself.

It goes without saying that this experience provided some of the tools used in this book, such as the concept of space. Discussion in the group also gave me the opportunity to finally go one step further, and extend my explorations into a more detailed study of immobility and mobility: Why are there so few migrants out of most places? and: Why are there so many migrants out of a few places? Furthermore, the common work stimulated me to think about the border-crossing expansion of migrants' spaces, so-called transnational social spaces. This concept connects my study to a strand of work I have been engaged for the past years, the analysis of immigrant integration in advanced welfare states.

This volume has benefited from exceptional research assistance by Jrgen Gerdes who also provided valuable suggestions. Ute Bitzer, Judith Quintern, Ilja Mertens, and Lars Heinemann carefully looked through the whole manuscript. Several colleagues read specific chapters. They helped me to correct some mistakes and tighten up the analysis, although I obviously take full responsibility for this final version. My gratitude goes to: Tomas Hammar, Carsten Ullrich, Svenja Falk, Madeleine Tress, Sabine Dreher, Eyp zveren, Bernhard Peters, (p.viii) John Mollenkopf, John Rex, and Aristide Zolberg. My colleagues at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen discussed and criticized the two chapters on transnational social spaces in research seminars. At Oxford University Press I have been very fortunate to receeive the advice of Dominic Byatt and the generous help of Amanda Watkins. Anne-Helene Seedorff provided secretarial assistance. As usual, Rita and Bernhard Stadler afforded me a quiet place to finalize this study. And throughout the writing my wife Sreyya supported me in more ways than one.

T. F.

Bremen

February 1999

1.1 Stylized pushpull model of migration

1.2 Stylized centreperiphery model of migration

1.3 Stylized model of migration in transnational social spaces

2.1 The three stylized levels of migration analysis

3.1 Ratification record of major ILO Conventions concerning migrant workers by selected immigration countries

3.2 Potential pay-offs for emigration and immigration countries in an asymmetric set-up

3.3 Degree of rights and realms of adaptation for (temporary) migrants

3.4 Total immigration to Germany and emigration from Germany abroad, 19611996

3.5 Immigration from Turkey to Germany and emigration from Germany to Turkey, 19611996

3.6 Asylum seekers to Germany: overall numbers and Turkish citizens, 19801997

4.1 Opportunities for control in networks

4.2 Three aspects of social integration and three dimensions of social capital on the micro, meso, and macro level

4.3 Social capital in networks and collectives

4.4 The functions of social capital in a migration systema simplified model

6.1 Cumulative mobility: positive feedback loops

6.2 A stylized inverted U-curve

6.3 Alienship, denizenship, and citizenship

6.4 A stylized S-shaped migration curve

6.5 The unfinished yet terminated TurkishGerman migration curve

7.1 Bridges and doors in international migration

7.2 Three types of transnational social spaces arising from international migration and flight

7.3 Cumulative causation in transnational spaces: positive feedback effects in the GermanTurkish transnational space

8.1 Three concepts for the analysis of immigrant adaptation in the immigration countries

8.2 Stylized stages of melting into the core, pluralization, and three forms of transnational social spaces

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9.1 Why are there so few international migrants out of most places?

9.2 Why are there so many international migrants out of so few places?

9.3 How do transnational social spaces evolve?

9.4 How to conceptualize concomitant immigrant adaptation and border-crossing expansion of social space?

Source: The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces
Publisher: Oxford University Press

1.1 World population born abroad, divided by regions