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Accepted Paper:
Informality and (im)mobility in transnational social fields
Ignacio Fradejas-García
(University of Oviedo)
Jose Luis Molina
(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Miranda Lubbers
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Paper short abstract:
This communication addresses the issue of how to study informality and (im)mobility along the transnational social field of Romanian immigrants in Spain.
Paper long abstract:
In the on-going research project ORBITS (MINECO-FEDER-CSO2015-68687-P) we study the social ties within a transnational social field of Romanian citizens in Spain. Drawing on the link-tracing approach followed by Mouw et al. (2014) for the transnational networks of Mexican migrants in the US, we intend to interview 600 Romanians in four sites: two Romanian enclaves in the Spanish Mediterranean coast (Castelló & Roquetas de Mar), and their places of origin in Romania (Dâmbovița & Bistrița-Năsăud, respectively). In addition, this methodology is combined with ethnographic methods as observant participation, in-depth interviews, network drawing and group discussions. This mixed methods approach, we argue, facilitates to implement a focused investigation on how (im)mobility and informality become entangled as livelihood strategies.