Networks Amongst Syrians: Situated Migrant Positionalities and the Impact on Relational Embedding

Abstract: This article employs Yuval‐Davis concept of situated intersectionality to explore processes of relational embedding amongst Syrian migrants in the UK. By drawing on in‐depth interview data from 31 men and women living in North East England, we explore how varying social categories - or positionalities - intersect and shape personal networks and feelings of attachment amongst Syrians. We show how wider structural contexts and systems of social relations shape migrants' sense of belonging and attachment which can serve to enhance or weaken opportunities for social and economic inclusion. The findings reveal how, for Syrian migrants, wider macro level contexts determine immigration and asylum routes which in turn shape place‐specific opportunity structures that impact on micro individual level processes of relational embedding. We develop the term "migrant positionalities" as a social category to capture the multiple experiences of migration and asylum and the power dynamics that dete

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Social Inclusion ; 9 (2021) 4 ; 243-253

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2021
• Creator: Speed, Francesca ; Scurry, Tracy ; Edward, Peter ; Moufahim, Mona

Further information

• DOI: 10.17645/si.v9i4.4521
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022101813094107959144
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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