Social Capital and the Dynamics of Transnational Migration (Polish Migration Project)

Research question/goal: 

This project aims at analyzing the actual and potential dynamics of immigration into Germany comparing classical EU-sending countries with candidates for future EU-membership. A pilot study will be conducted in Poland. The theoretical interest focuses on the impact of 'bounded rationality' and 'social capital' on the underlying decision making and migration processes. The project builds up upon the former MZES project ‘migration potentials’ and strongly follows the idea of the Mexican Migration Project (MMP) conducted at the University of Guadalajara and at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The project has been transfered to Leipzig University in 2004 when the project director accepted a chair at this university.

Fact sheet

Funding: 
DFG
Duration: 
2003 to 2005
Status: 
completed
Data Sources: 
primary data collection
Geographic Space: 
Poland, additional countries after a successful pilot study

Publications

Book Chapters

Kalter, Frank (2003): Stand und Perspektiven der Migrationssoziologie. Pp. 323-338 in: Barbara Orth, Thomas Schwietring, Johannes Weiß (Eds.) Soziologische Forschung. Stand und Perspektiven. Opladen: Leske+Budrich. more