Sisteme de migrație internațională. Între teorie și realitate socială Systems of international migration between theory and social reality Section Studies and Research Papers

Abstract

The article was triggered by a methodological question: Which is the moment in a research when the hypothesis are elaborated: before leaving in the fieldwork, or in the contact with the social reality? In other words, the article analyses the interplay between the social reality and the appearance of a new theory and focuses on three approaches in the study of migration: system theory, social networks, and transnational migration. Having this as a starting point and an analysis of the Romanian migration, the article builds a scheme of analysis, that, as I will show along the article, is mainly based on social networks theory.