Strong and Weak Ties in Migration

Men were able to physically profit from both the strong and weak ties since they could work in the industrial and service jobs that were concentrated around downtown. Due to their ability to seek help from both female and male sources, men immigrants were additionally able to gain from both strong and weak ties. The exogamic marriage’s components made the strategy possible. According to Hagan (1998), exogamy marriage has benefited male immigrants since it allows them to connect with other people. As a result, the male counterparts have achieved higher results. The implication here is that male immigrants were able to benefit from their family members, neighbors and friends on the basis of being daring and communicative with all types of individuals.

Different patterns transpired among women immigrants because only one to one exposure to individual employer was witnessed. The implication here is that immigrant women moved into private household work, thus the absence of enough exposure. Furthermore, fragmented network due to access to information being limited has led to differences among women. According to Hagan (1998), most immigrant women were unable to attain their objective because of the fact that they were limited in getting hold of what could contribute towards their success. The other difference is noted in young, unattached women who are less likely to migrate than men. The rationale is based on the fact that they don’t feel confident with the issue of migrating, as a way of getting a better lifestyle. Therefore, immigrant women have differences in their nature of migrating in terms of success or failure as enumerated in the aforementioned issues.

Responses to the legalization of 1980s was met with both negative and positive aspects on the basis of strong and weak ties among immigrants. Dragojevi (2016), enumerate that the Acts apparently required employers to attest to their employee’s immigration status. The move was instigated especially among the male counterparts as they were perceived to be taking part in illegal aspects that were associated with crime. Furthermore, the Acts in question went to the extent of not hiring illegal immigrants in a knowingly perspective. An example is where friends were no longer assisting the illegal immigrants because of fear of being associated with the wrong groups. Additionally, neighbors on the basis of weak ties were not assisting illegal immigrants as well. On the other hand, legalization of certain seasonal agricultural illegal immigrants motivated men to seek for jobs, thus the reason they benefited more when compared to their female counterparts. The two examples offered indicate that there were times when immigration was favorable and there were times when immigration was not essential to the immigrants.

Conclusion

To sum up: Immigration generated both the weak and strong ties on the basis of how one was treated while moving from one place to another. It is apparent that the contents of strong ties consisted of kin, close friends and childhood neighbors whereas weak ties are Acquaintances and a committee member from another department. Essentially their contribution towards immigration generate both the negative and positive on the basis of the support offered. Furthermore, the legalization of the differences in immigration on the contents of strong and weak ties further shows that there are those who benefited and those who lost. Despite the differences, most of the immigrants have gained as opposed to those who have lost.

Works Cited

Dragojevi, M. The Politics of Social Ties: Immigrants in an Ethnic Homeland, Routledge, 2016. Print.

Hagan M. J. “Social Networks, Gender and Immigrant Settlement: Resource and Constraint.” American Sociological Review 63(1):55-67; 1998.