Cruzar los pirineos en momentos de incertidumbre. Las redes transnacionales en los desafíos profesionales de jóvenes españoles en Toulouse

Abstract

This thesis deals with a current phenomenon of social and sociological interest, influenced by the global economic and financial crisis, which began in 2008. The research aims to identify strategies for the implementation of the temporary migration project based on career criteria (past, present and future) of the Spanish population recently settled in Toulouse (France). In summary, strategies to organize the mobility process are the product of a succession of transnational interaction situations which help to construct and activate useful information that provides access to concrete resources to find employment and reside in a new context. The mobility process explains the diversity of forms of social integration, access to adulthood and the relational stabilization of the population. These transnational relational strategies are constantly being constructed and transformed, as a process involved in the interactions and social environments in which people participate, not to mention the structural context encountered by these people. Thus, transnational interpersonal links allow us to discern the emergence of collective spaces for sharing and social groups that explain the structures of sociability and social support. The presence of individuals in transnational groups leads to the formation of personal networks and affects the relational stabilization in their places of residence. This set of reciprocal influences between more or less stabilized personal networks, the relationships identified in the initial stages of migration and the interaction between personal relationships that generate transnational sociability collectives contribute to the explanation of expatriation phenomena and work migration covered in this thesis.