Migrant Networks

Migrant Relationships and Tourism Employment

by Peter Lugosi

Janta, H., Brown, L., Lugosi, P. and Ladkin, L. (2011) 'Migrant relationships and tourism employment', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 1322-1343.
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This paper examines how tourism employment and workplace experiences influence migrant workers' adaptation in the host... more This paper examines how tourism employment and workplace experiences influence migrant workers' adaptation in the host society. It is argued that tourism employment provides access to multiple social networks, which subsequently supports the improvement of foreign workers’ social and cultural competencies. Such networks also help to compensate for the negative aspects of tourism work and migration. In addition, the paper considers how relationships among international workers inform chain migration and influence subsequent recruitment practices and migration experiences. The findings stem from a wider study of the experiences of Polish migrant workers employed in the UK tourism sector using qualitative and quantitative data. 

La fabrique communautaire: les Grecs à Venise, Livourne et Marseille, v. 1770-v. 1830

by Mathieu Grenet

Ph.D. thesis (2010)
European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Supervisor:
Jury: Prof. Anthony Molho (EUI), Prof. Antonella Romano (EUI), Prof. Francesca Trivellato (Yale University), and Prof. Brigitte Marin (Université Aix-Marseille)
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The point of departure for this dissertation is a historical, epistemological and methodological discussion of the... more The point of departure for this dissertation is a historical, epistemological and methodological discussion of the notion of “community”. Based on a comparative approach to the three cases of the Greeks in Venice, Livorno and Marseilles from the age of the “Greek Enlightenment” (c. 1770) up until the birth of an independent Neohellenic state (1830), this study aims to challenge the conventional image of early modern foreign communities as homogeneous and inclusive groups, by rendering the complex, diverse, and often contradictory trajectories of groups and individuals that formed what we know as “the Greek Diaspora”. Paying special attention to issues such as the administrative control of the migrants, the collective uses of urban space, and the sharing of socio-cultural practices, it reconstructs the multi-layered background that supported the expression of communal identities among the Greeks in Venice, Livorno and Marseilles. By recasting the three cases under scrutiny within the wider context of the many connections and relations that existed among them, the dissertation stresses the ways in which the entanglement of mercantile, migratory and family networks came to “shape” the Greek Diaspora as a space both physical and socio-symbolical. Conversely, and in a micro-historical perspective, it also analyses the role played by the “communal institutions” (namely the Greek-Orthodox churches and brotherhoods) in shaping collective identities and governing plural and heterogeneous social groups, as well as the many types of reaction and resistance to this progressive “institutionalisation” of community life. Lastly, a case-study on the ambiguous involvement of the Greeks in Venice, Livorno and Marseilles in the Greek war of independence (1821-1830), sheds light on the complex issue of the “patriotism of the expatriates”, and argues for an essential distinction between the making of communal identity, and that of national (or even “proto-national”) consciousness.

Quand'le plus court chemin'n'est pas le chemin le plus court. Les réseaux migratoires grecs vers Marseille de la fin du XVIIIe au milieu du XIXe siècle

by Mathieu Grenet

in Réseaux en question : utopies, pratiques et prospective, eds. Annie Bleton-Ruget, Nicole Commerçon and Martin Vanier, Mâcon: Institut de Recherche du Val de Saône-Mâconnais, 2010: 383-395.