A network approach to migrants’ transnational biographies
- This paper reviews social network analysis (SNA) as a method to be utilized in biographical research which is a novel contribution. We argue that applying SNA in the context of biography research through standardized data collection as well as visualization of networks can open up participants’ interpretations of relations throughout their lives, and allow a creative and innovative way of data collection that is responsive to participants’ own meanings and associations while allowing the researchers to conduct systematical data analysis. The paper discusses the analytical potential of SNA in biographical research, where the efficacy of this method is critically discussed, together with its limitations, and its potential within the context of biographical research.
| Author: | Başak Bilecen, Anna Amelina |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-450037 |
| URL: | http://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/66520212/Working-paper-No_12.pdf |
| Parent Title (German): | Working Paper Series "Gender, Diversity and Migration" ; No. 11 |
| Series (Serial Number): | Working Paper Series "Gender, Diversity and Migration" (12) |
| Publisher: | Goethe-Universität, Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2017 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2017 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2017/11/06 |
| Tag: | biographical research; migration; social network analysis; transnational social protection |
| Page Number: | 18 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 424224976 |
| Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
