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Djundeva, Maja ORCID: 0000-0002-2448-0331 and Ellwardt, Lea ORCID: 0000-0001-9292-2392 (2020). Social support networks and loneliness of Polish migrants in the Netherlands. J. Ethn. Migr. Stud., 46 (7). S. 1281 - 1301. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1469-9451

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Abstract

While the concept of transnationalism has gained widespread popularity among scholars as a way to describe immigrants' long-term maintenance of cross-border ties, few studies have empirically addressed how social networks that connect migrants to each other and to nonmigrants in communities of origin are also associated with migrants' well-being. We examined the extent to which social support networks of Polish migrants in the Netherlands serve as precursors of loneliness. Using information on confidant networks (The Families of Poles in the Netherlands, N=1131) and latent class analysis, five networks types are identified based on the received emotional support provided by kin and non-kin residing in the Netherlands and abroad. Migrants with small, homogeneous and kin-based (restricted) networks are more likely to be lonely compared to migrants with other four network types. Addressing the relationship between transnational activities and migrants' social networks, results suggest the host language proficiency is the most important predictor of large, heterogeneous, non-kin based networks in migrants. This study finds support that some transnational activates taking place in the host country are related to social networks in ways that promote integration, contrary to the notion that transnationalism is unrelated to the process of immigrant adaptation and assimilation.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Djundeva, Maja UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2448-0331 UNSPECIFIED Ellwardt, Lea UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-9292-2392 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-153287
DOI:	10.1080/1369183X.2019.1597691
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Ethn. Migr. Stud.
Volume:	46
Number:	7
Page Range:	S. 1281 - 1301
Date:	2020
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	1469-9451
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology and Social Psychology > Department of Scociology
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language EMOTIONAL LONELINESS; OLDER-ADULTS; MIGRATION; TRANSNATIONALISM; INTEGRATION; ASSIMILATION; EUROPE; YOUNG; CARE; TIES Multiple languages Demography; Ethnic Studies Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/15328