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Social Network and Social Services Accessibility of Migrant Workers

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
  • 2008, 42(4), pp.243-268
  • Publisher : 한국문헌정보학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science

Soosang Lee 1 Jang Im Sook 1

1부산대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study considers the availability, accessibility, and efficacy of social services for migrant workers. First, it examines migrant workers needs and how they choose to fulfill these. Second, this study grasps about how they can connect the social services and what constructive peculiarities social networks they have by using SNA(Social Network Analysis) it is revealed that migrant workers rely more on informal support groups such as family, friends, co-workers, etc. rather than formal support networks, e.g. those provided by the state. This tendency is demonstrated especially, Libraries as formal supporting organization have no connection related with other organizations. It shows that they have role limited as a supporter of giving information and knowledge in a public.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.