Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), XI new series no. 2/2000, pp. 83-99.
Instrumentalizarea spațiilor virtuale. Noi strategii de reproducere și conversie a capitalurilor în situație migratorie
Instrumenting Virtual Space. New Strategies of Reproduction and Conversion of Capitals in a Migration Context
Mihaela Florina Nedelcu
Abstract (Rezumat în limba engleză): The extending of NTIC on a large scale implies, at the level of international migrations, new strategies of social and geo¬graphic movement as well as big changes of the social behaviour linked to the resource display in the migration context.
Starting from the example of a virtual space which represents the crossing of migration, ethnical and professional networks, this article illustrates the usage of virtual space by a particular population of highly qualified migrants - the IT professionals power: theoretical and development issues, in Migration and Development, Ed. R.T. Aplleyard, Paris, OECD, pp.109-128, empirically stressing the case of computer specialists having emigrated to Toronto. We are going to question the renewing role these migrants assume through the human, cultural and social capital with which they were originally endowed. The virtual space, with its associative power, becomes a social space of recognition, of resource investment and of identity building. Support of capital transfer, reproduction and conversion in a migratory context, this technological environment provides creative instruments for diaspora and community organization.