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The Social Networking Of Voluntary Migrant Organisations: Communities, Organisational Cooperation, And Political Action In Europe. A Comparative Analysis Of Ethnic And MigrantNetworks.

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posted on 2024-10-23, 11:24 authored by Foteini Panagiotopoulou

This PhD thesis examines the structural patterns of social networking among migrant voluntary associations in Zurich, Budapest, Barcelona, Madrid, and Athens and the impact of these patterns on political action by considering concurrently the respective effect of ethnicity as an organisational attribute of migrant voluntary associations organisations. The research begins with an attempt to unveil the relation between the regional origin of migrant associations and the strength of ties, cohesion, centrality, fragmentation, and homophily. The project focuses on the top-down formation of communities and sub-groups inside migrant organisational networks by detecting and examining structural holes and the ethnic heterogeneity of components, cutpoints, and isolates after removing cutpoints from the network. The research examines cohesive properties of migrant organisational networks. It employs social network analysis of weighted undirected graphs of networks formed by additive interactions of shared resources, cooperation, and coordination, aiming to contribute to the employment of multiple relations in the study of networks of migrant organisations with various regional origins. The analysis focuses comparatively on a previously not studied combination of survey relational secondary and primary data. The study follows a comparative research design across regional origins within and across cities. The research concludes that regional origin as an attribute of migrant organisation can relate to network properties and that those can predict political action. Overall, the research delves into the interplay of regional origin of migrant organisations, network properties and network communities, and political action to contribute methodologically and empirically to the study of weighted social networks of migrant voluntary organisations, particularly in revealing the positive effect of degree and whether migrant association acts as a cutpoint in the migrant organisational network on political action of this association.

History

Supervisor(s)

Rob Dover; Tara McCormack; Alexander Gorban

Date of award

2024-07-29

Author affiliation

School of History, Politics, and International Relations

Awarding institution

University of Leicester

Qualification level

  • Doctoral

Qualification name

  • PhD

Language

en

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