Aspirations and Networks of Italian Migrants to Bogota. A Typology
This paper aims to understand the individual and relational motives supporting migration from Italy to Bogota. Our concern is to achieve a nuanced understanding of how aspirations, on the one hand, and social networks, on the other, shape migratory decisions and structure in broader migration patter...
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| description | This paper aims to understand the individual and relational motives supporting migration from Italy to Bogota. Our concern is to achieve a nuanced understanding of how aspirations, on the one hand, and social networks, on the other, shape migratory decisions and structure in broader migration patterns. To do this, we chose a qualitative approach based on narrative interviews with Italians living in Bogota, which were selected through snowball sampling. As a result, we produced a typology of five different migration pathways: globetrotters aspiring to international mobility with no mediators supporting their process of continuous migration; careerists who accept moving on demand of their company for advancing their career supported by professional mediators; risk-takers aspiring to professional independence and supported in their entrepreneurial project by weak ties; tied migrants aspiring to better family quality of life and supported by strong familial ties; and exiled migrants who find a refuge from the difficulties they encounter in Italy and supported by strong professional ties. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6782355f921146d6b5fa4c53a9955f792025-02-10T09:11:14ZengLodz University PressQualitative Sociology Review1733-80772025-01-0121162610.18778/1733-8077.21.1.0125392Aspirations and Networks of Italian Migrants to Bogota. A TypologyAngela Delli Paoli0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1463-2573Domenico Maddaloni1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1312-2299University of Salerno, ItalyUniversity of Salerno, ItalyThis paper aims to understand the individual and relational motives supporting migration from Italy to Bogota. Our concern is to achieve a nuanced understanding of how aspirations, on the one hand, and social networks, on the other, shape migratory decisions and structure in broader migration patterns. To do this, we chose a qualitative approach based on narrative interviews with Italians living in Bogota, which were selected through snowball sampling. As a result, we produced a typology of five different migration pathways: globetrotters aspiring to international mobility with no mediators supporting their process of continuous migration; careerists who accept moving on demand of their company for advancing their career supported by professional mediators; risk-takers aspiring to professional independence and supported in their entrepreneurial project by weak ties; tied migrants aspiring to better family quality of life and supported by strong familial ties; and exiled migrants who find a refuge from the difficulties they encounter in Italy and supported by strong professional ties.https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/qualit/article/view/24822aspirationsmediatorsmigrationitalybogotatypology |
| spellingShingle | Angela Delli Paoli Domenico Maddaloni Aspirations and Networks of Italian Migrants to Bogota. A Typology Qualitative Sociology Review aspirations mediators migration italy bogota typology |
| title | Aspirations and Networks of Italian Migrants to Bogota. A Typology |
| title_full | Aspirations and Networks of Italian Migrants to Bogota. A Typology |
| title_fullStr | Aspirations and Networks of Italian Migrants to Bogota. A Typology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Aspirations and Networks of Italian Migrants to Bogota. A Typology |
| title_short | Aspirations and Networks of Italian Migrants to Bogota. A Typology |
| title_sort | aspirations and networks of italian migrants to bogota a typology |
| topic | aspirations mediators migration italy bogota typology |
| url | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/qualit/article/view/24822 |
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