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Aspirations and Networks of Italian Migrants to Bogota. A Typology

dc.contributor.authorDelli Paoli, Angela
dc.contributor.authorMaddaloni, Domenico
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-10T09:20:39Z
dc.date.available2025-02-10T09:20:39Z
dc.date.issued2025-01-31
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/54573
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegopl
dc.relation.ispartofseriesQualitative Sociology Review;1en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectAspirationsen
dc.subjectMediatorsen
dc.subjectMigrationen
dc.subjectItalyen
dc.subjectBogotaen
dc.subjectTypologyen
dc.titleAspirations and Networks of Italian Migrants to Bogota. A Typologyen
dc.typeArticle
dc.page.number6-26
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationDelli Paoli, Angela - University of Salerno, Italyen
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationMaddaloni, Domenico - University of Salerno, Italyen
dc.identifier.eissn1733-8077
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dc.contributor.authorEmailDelli Paoli, Angela - adellipaoli@unisa.it
dc.contributor.authorEmailMaddaloni, Domenico - dmaddaloni@unisa.it
dc.identifier.doi10.18778/1733-8077.21.1.01
dc.relation.volume21


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