Sentence examples for migrant mobilization from inspiring English sources

We engage in a critical assessment of political opportunity structure theory (POS) – the dominant approach in the study of migrant mobilization.

Relying on transnationalist theory, we also hypothesized that war or discrimination in the sending state is a precondition for migrant mobilization.

The dominance of the political opportunity structure approach has led to an emphasis of institutional variables in the field of migrant mobilization.

Considering the dominance of political opportunity structure theory (POS) in the field of migrant mobilization, and the prominent position of citizenship rights among these theories, this is a surprising result.

It supports the theoretical argument from the first section, which holds that POS theory is confronted with considerable limits and might not be able to explain variance in migrant mobilization across time.

In the realm of migrant mobilization, for instance, economic structuralism has interpreted social movements that are formed by an alliance of migrants and natives, such as the anti-racism movement, as a mobilization of common class interests (Ireland 1994, p. 234).

The problem of such an interpretation, however, is that migrants' mobilization along ethnic lines has to be interpreted as being caused by a lack of class-consciousness (Connor 1994, p. 149).

Ethnicity theory relates to the fact that ethnicity is often a good predictor for variance in the political behavior of migrants, and migrants' political mobilization is often framed along ethnic lines.

Figure 1 depicts the levels of migrant protest mobilization as a ratio of the national population and the number of foreign-born in the seven countries under study between 1975 and 2005.

In this case we would expect higher shares of postcolonial migrants to be positively related with protest mobilization by migrants.

(4) Social mobilization among migrants Social mobilization among migrants Although 87.5 % (20 monthly meetings of the planned 32) of the monthly meetings formed, all the social mobilization team members attended each of these meetings.