In dem vorliegenden Beitrag geht es um die theoretische Modellierung und empirische Untersuchung von Kettenmigrationsprozessen. Im Mittelpunkt steht die These, dass bei der Entscheidung zur Migration neben ökonomischen Überlegungen soziale Beziehungen der Migranten von zentraler Bedeutung sind. Auf der Basis der Theorie rationaler Entscheidungen wird ein allgemeines Erklärungsmodell für die Entstehung ...
Drawing on the rational choice approach and the economic sociology of migration, this article discusses the role of social networks in terms of location-specific social capital. It discusses relations between sociological and economic aspects of migration and outlines the influence of social capital on migration decision-making and chain migration processes. There have been various attempts to measure ...
The field of empirical migration and integration research is characterised by a wide range of research questions, theoretical approaches and data sets. Research based on official statistics has to deal with different data sets on migration and foreign population resulting in different numbers. Developments in official statistics concentrate on the improvement of data quality. The census 2010/2011 or ...