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- Thulin, Eva, 1974, et al.
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The internet and desire to move: the role of virtual practices in the inspiration phase of migration
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Ingår i: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie. - : Wiley. - 0040-747X. ; 107:3, s. 257-269
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper contributes to the understanding of non-local migration in the digital age by investigating emerging virtual practices in the migration process. We focus on the initial inspiration phase that theoretically defines the attainable reach of individuals considering moving. Using a case-based approach, we distinguish how online information and social contact influence an individual’s early considerations and desires to move elsewhere. We draw on indepth interviews with young adults in Sweden. Our findings characterise how Internet-based information influences the spatial, social, and temporal horizons of inspiration with potential implications for subsequent plans. We find that virtual practices spatially expand these horizons and promote a shift towards insider information. Results further suggest that a flow of information and background knowledge regarding opportunities in other places drives the inspiration phase, extending its duration until it is more or less continuous. Reduced information friction increases the scope for impulsiveness to spark migration inspiration and intentions.
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- Thulin, Eva, 1974, et al.
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Virtual practices and migration plans: a qualitative study of urban young adults
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Ingår i: Population, Space and Place. - : Wiley. - 1544-8452 .- 1544-8444. ; 20:5, s. 389-401
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The paper develops our understanding of how the Internet is integrated into migration processes and influences plans and decisions to move, drawing on in-depth interviews with urban young adults planning to move. Our analysis is based on people’s own experiences and perceptions, focusing on the pre-migrant phase of interregional migration. Theoretically, the decision to move is an ongoing process and practice in which Internet use is increasingly prominent. Internet-based information is assumed to increasingly be supporting and transforming individual migration plans. Results indicate that Internet use is integrated into most respondents’ migration practices and is perceived as a necessity when accessing information about jobs, education, housing, and destinations. Its role varies between migration process phases, that is inspiration, screening and sorting, practical and emotional preparation, and post-processing after settlement. In the inspiration phase, Internetbased information builds migrant awareness of new opportunities in unfamiliar places, permitting larger and more distant geographical areas to be considered. The Internet is not perceived as a driving force per se, but instead a supportive agent. Internet use is believed to encourage individual interest in migration, transforming the overall meaning of migration and reducing the perceived friction of distance.
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- Vilhelmson, Bertil, 1952, et al.
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Does the Internet encourage people to move? Investigating Swedish young adults’ internal migration experiences and plans
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Ingår i: Geoforum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-7185 .- 1872-9398. ; 47:June, s. 209-216
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Internet offers personalized and constantly updated information about opportunities and facilities at places far away. It stimulates distant personal contact and interaction via social media. Attention is thus increasingly being paid to the relationships between Internet use and traditional, physical forms of spatial interaction and movement. This paper explores possible associations between Internet use and internal migration, based on a 2009 survey of 750 young adults in Sweden. We explore Internet-based information seeking practices associated with actual migration experiences and with current plans to move to another place. Results indicate that many recent movers believed that the Internet influenced and facilitated their decision to move, and somewhat influenced their choice of destination. Many have also developed Internet-based communication practices that involve plans to migrate in the near future. Results suggest that the Internet reinforces intentions to move for a sizeable group, and also affects their migration motives.
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- Vilhelmson, Bertil, 1952, et al.
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Environment as a Multifaceted Migration Motive: Meanings and Interpretations Among a Group of Young Adults in Sweden
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Ingår i: Population, Space and Place. - : Wiley. - 1544-8452 .- 1544-8444. ; 22:3, s. 276-287
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The need for a change of living environment is an often-expressed motive in surveys of migrants– in addition to better-defined social, educational, and economic reasons. Studies also suggest that environmental motives have become more frequent and influential over time. While ticking the ‘change of environment’ box of a questionnaire is easy, the underlying concept is highly complex, wide-ranging, and difficult to measure and theorise. This study explores the meaning prospective migrants attach to the environmental motive in relation to experienced and/or anticipated future moves.We go beyond the conventional quantitative approaches of coding and classification, and draw empirically on in-depth interviews with 16 urban young adults living in Sweden. Results indicate that they attach many meanings to the concept: a felt personal need to encounter completely new situations, people, and places; a longing for big city social life and culture; a need to connect more closely to nature and outdoor activities; dissatisfaction with present living settings; and, overall, that recurrent relocation is a perceived social norm. Furthermore, the traditional view in which environmental motives contrast or are subordinated to job-relatedmotives is challenged. The results have implications for the understanding and theorising of migration motives, and for the more comprehensive classification of environmental motives in future research.
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