Mobility at the margins: The facilitating and risk‐reducing role of clustered migration in migration for begging between Romania and Norway
| Published date | 01 February 2023 |
| Author | Guri Tyldum,Jon Horgen Friberg |
| Date | 01 February 2023 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12999 |
International Migration. 2023;61:205–219.
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INTRODUCTION
Across Europe, poor and marginalized groups from Eas t and Central Europe migrate to make a living from beg-
ging and other info rmal street- level income- earning activities , such as selling magazines or flowe rs, or collecting
bottles for re cycling, from here referr ed to as ‘street work.’ Following the e astward expansion of the EU i n 2007,
Norway saw an inf lux of migrants, mainly of Roma nian origin, who came to earn mo ney from begging and other
Received: 30 Ja nuary 2021
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Revised: 16 Decemb er 2021
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Accepted: 4 Febru ary 2022
DOI: 10.1111/imig.12999
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Mobility at the margins: The facilitating and risk-
reducing role of clustered migration in migration
for begging between Romania and Norway
Guri Tyldum| Jon Horgen Friberg
This is an open ac cess article und er the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and
reproduct ion in any medium, pro vided the origina l work is properly cit ed.
© 2022 The Auth ors. International Migration published by John W iley & Sons Ltd on behalf o f International Or ganization for
Migration
Research Fellow, Fafo Research Foundation,
Oslo, Norway
Correspondence
Guri Tyldum, Rese arch Fellow, Fafo
Research Foun dation, Oslo 1164, Nor way.
Email: gty@fafo.no
Funding information
Norges Forskningsråd, Grant/Award
Number: 247823
Abstract
This article describes the social and economic organiza-
tion of migration for begging from Romania to Norway.
Drawing on a survey among homeles s Romanians in Oslo
and qualitative interviews conducted in Norway and
migrant- sending communities in Romania, we describe
how migrants gain access to resources such as informa-
tion, transpor t, places to beg and places to sleep, a s well as
social and emotional support when abroad. We argue that
the particula r, clustered stru cture of these migration flows
makes migration availab le to persons who otherwise wo uld
not have opportunities to migrate, eases their adaptation
in cities of destination and serves to protect the migrants
from exploitatio n and abuse from external actors. T his mi-
gration structure does, however, reflect a strong depend-
ence on kinship netwo rks, which may create vulnerabili ties
in itself.
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