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INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW
Volume 54, Issue 1, Pages 177-204Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0197918318812343
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- Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness - Government of Spain (MINECO-FEDER) [CSO2015-68687-P]
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [R24-HD041025]
- Institute for CyberScience at Penn State University
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Scholars of transnationalism have argued that migrants create transnational social fields or spaces that connect their place of origin to destination areas. Despite the centrality that social networks have in the definition of these concepts, quantitative and mixed-methods social network research is rare in research on transnationalism. This situation, however, has changed over the last decade, and the transnational social networks of migrants have been studied with multiple methodologies. So far, this literature has not been systematically evaluated. With the aim of taking stock of this research, we classify the literature into four types of approaches (individual, household, dyad/small set, and community) and review their distinct contributions regarding the functioning of immigrants' transnational networks, as well as the relative strengths and limitations of each approach. On the basis of our analysis, we discuss pathways for future investigation.
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