Connected immigrants? four methodological challenges for the analysis of ICT use through survey data [¿Inmigrantes conectados? cuatro desafíos metodológicos en el análisis del uso de las TIC a través de datos de encuestas]

Migraciones Internacionales
Volume 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 43-72

Connected immigrants? four methodological challenges for the analysis of ICT use through survey data [¿Inmigrantes conectados? cuatro desafíos metodológicos en el análisis del uso de las TIC a través de datos de encuestas] (Article)

Vancea M. , Boso A.

^a Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
^b Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Abstract

Both the sociology of migration and the academic literature on network society tend to highlight the penetration of new information and communication technologies (ict) in the migrant population. While there have been significant contributions to this area of knowledge from qualitative studies, very few quantitative studies examine the relationship between the migrant population and new technologies. This article outlines four methodological challenges in the analysis of migrant populations' adaptation to the network society through survey data: absence of relevant variables, possible measurement errors in the dependent variable, data collection problems and endogeneity.

Author Keywords

Methodology Surveys Migrant population Information and communication technologies (ICT) Network society

Index Keywords

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84894640209&partnerID=40&md5=1dc8f1c6b6ff3bc37e236fc887d4d90f

ISSN: 16658906

Cited by: 1

Original Language: English; Spanish