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• Title:
  Aspirations and Networks of Italian Migrants to Bogota. A Typology
• Creator:
  Delli Paoli, Angela;
  Maddaloni, Domenico
• Contributor:
  Delli Paoli, Angela - University of Salerno, Italy;
  Maddaloni, Domenico - University of Salerno, Italy;
  Delli Paoli, Angela - adellipaoli@unisa.it;
  Maddaloni, Domenico - dmaddaloni@unisa.it
• 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.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2025.02.10;
  2025.01.31
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Qualitative Sociology Review;1;
  21
• Subject:
  Aspirations;
  Mediators;
  Migration;
  Italy;
  Bogota;
  Typology
• Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11089/54573 ;
  1733-8077;
  10.18778/1733-8077.21.1.01
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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