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СОДЕРЖАНИЕ CONTENT Российский журнал сельскохозяйственных и социальноэкономических наук Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences выпуск 8(8) issue август 2012 August М М..ОО.. ИИззооттоовв Особенности экономического подхода при исследовании феномена коррупции 3 M M.. IIzzoottoovv Features of an economic approach at research of corruption phenomenon СС.. ННааййээмм The rationale behind weakly tied networking of the bangladeshi diaspora in Malaysia 6 SS.. NNaayyeeeemm The rationale behind weakly tied networking of the bangladeshi diaspora in Malaysia СС.. М Мууссттааффаа,, ПП.. ББззууггуу,, ИИ.. ААллии,, АА.. ААббддууллллааххии Determinants of adaptation to deforestation among farmers in Madagali local government area of Adamawa state, Nigeria 15 SS..BB.. M Muussttaapphhaa,, PP..M M.. BBzzuugguu,, II..M M.. AAllii,, AA.. AAbbdduullllaahhii Determinants of adaptation to deforestation among farmers in Madagali local government area of Adamawa state, Nigeria ГГ..ДД.. ААкккквваахх A threshold cointegration analysis of asymmetric adjustments in the Ghanaian maize markets 21 HH.. ddee--GGrraafftt AAccqquuaahh A threshold cointegration analysis of asymmetric adjustments in the ghanaian maize markets ЛЛ..АА.. Ш Шииллоовваа Социально-экономическое развитие Центрального федерального округа Российской Федерации с учетом методологических аспектов инновационного управления отходами 26 LL.. SShhiilloovvaa Socio-economic development of the Central federal district of Russian Federation with methodological aspects of innovation waste management
M.O. IZOTOV, Orel State Agrarian University 3 FEATURES OF AN ECONOMIC APPROACH AT RESEARCH OF CORRUPTION PHENOMENON M.O. Izotov, Researcher .. , !"#$% Orel State Agrarian University, Orel City, Russia "&!%$ '!#"!('""$("!$(, '. ")&, !!$* Phone: +7 (920) 812-90-64, E-mail: max198522@mail.ru Received August 10, 2012 ABSTRACT In article features of an economic approach are considered when developing the anti-corruption measures directed on restriction of possibilities of any discretion and excessive intervention of civil servants in economic activity, including through differentiation of functions and specification of competences. The special urgency of researches of a problem of corruption as special social phenomenon is noted. + , , . !. KEY WORDS Corruption; Social and economic researches; Phenomenon; Model; Economic approach. ,-"; #-; $; %; &. .!&(#(( "(/* !"(/(/ "!!$ !%/ 01(!( !&%"( %&2."0&(/$!!&(#$* %"".3$$ %% !0'!3$&2'*&($*. ( $($(/ $/(!* 3(&"*# !3$&24 $ '/$"4 %, %5#* $%"4 !$!!1(!(%&# "$$( ."0&(/$%$ %"".3$$ $ 0"20! ( . 6%/$(!%%(, "/%4 ($!$3$&27%&70-( ''. XX ., !8"/$"&!* !.#4# $!!&(#$$ 8(/(%"".3$$. '&!(/, %"".3$* $(!* $!4#* $.!&%$, *&*(!* "3$&2($ #5( "/&2) "$#!29 .(#($*, ."&(45#($( .$/&2'!.!0"(&$3$$ $("(!!&$*4 '"$(!$ "(!"!. (!2, «"(7($( #2 (*2) *%.$ "(!* 5( %&2%&*3$9 "$ '#, $ &90( #"'( 6%/$(!%( "(7($(» [1]. ."$/(", . -%%("/, #'$!(&( #'.#4#, %"".3$* ."(#(&*(!* %% «"$#!2 6%/$(!%'.(#($* !&$*4 "$!%, 0!&&('!("7($(/ ."(!.&($* $ /5/ %$(/ ('» [2]. .$!(!* %"".3$( .(#($( ."$ ./1$ /#(&$ «."$3$.& – '(», #(&2.$!9 "04 ''("![3]. /#(&2 4"%("$($/7($* "(4 !$%: ."$3$.&, '($ %&$(. "$3$.&/ *&*(!* &$3$&$ "'$3$*, !*1$( .("(# !03(&$ $ 0[$( "(!"!/$ #&* $4 "(&$3$$. ('"&$ /'!.2 %%-&$0'!#"!("'$&$ (#/!, '!#"!$&$ 01(!Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, No. 8 (8) / 2012 4 3(&/. &* "(&$3$$ .!&(4 .("(# !03(&( ."$3$.& $/('(, %"/ #(&( *&*9!* '!#"!(( !&51$(. '(#9!* 3(&$, .("(#9!* (04#$/( "(!"!(&!(, 8$!( $ .#.) $ (!* '"5#($( .&(9 "0. #&2( 7(/ ."$3$.&, *'(, /5(%"&$"2 ('#(*(&2!2, 00(!.($2 #!$5($( (04#$/'"(&2$ #(%( #&* 6'"!4#$( .("(#4 '("(!"!. &$(/ *&*(!* &$3, '".., "'$3$*, %"( #&* "(7($* !$4 ."0&(/, 3(&( 5#9!* $!.&2$$ ("(''("(!"!$ .6/5#(0"12!* % (/(."$/(", '"5#(, ."(#."$$/(&$, 0"$7$(!* ./129 % $$%). "".3$( "/%4 6/#(&$ !.9%$( #( !$* '(, ."$ %"/ $!.&2("(!"!."$3$.&( #&* "(7($* #.!&(#(', #&* #!$5($* !0!(4 3(&( . &$(."$ 6/ !.9"&$ *%#(&( , !.$7$4 !'" ! '(/ #&* "(7($* !$4 ."0&(/ .("(#(/9 (/*%. /$ 5( %"".3$( !$3$$ "/%4 .$!(//#(&$ $%9$-&$$* !$//("$$ #!.( % $8"/3$$, !1(!91( /(5#'(/ $ ."$3$.&/. '(.!"($9 ! ."$3$.&/ &#((0&27( $8"/3$( !!*$$ (%1$4 #(&, /5($2 (( $ $!.&22 &$4, / $!&( $ %"!4 3(&*4. "(&2( ""#!.( % $8"/3$$ ."$#$% /, $$% $/((/.&2( .""!."*52!* '!#"!(/ "(!"!/ !&$*4 !!$* %"&* !!"'!#"!$ 01(!, %5( /&("*'"$!%%$* %"".3$9 #(*(&2!2. /(%$4 !$3$*4 $%9%"".3$( !#(&%$. ( 0!*(&2!. &$'"# '&*#$0"$& $#( 8"/&: «"".3$* = /.&$* + !0##( !$ – .#(!2» [4]. &27( /(!6%/$(!%("$$ ."$ $!!&(#$$ 8(/(%"".3$$ #(&*(!* ."0&(/( $/7($ 0$(!$ &!$. !#"!(( !&51$( 0	&!/, #/$$!"$/ "(!"!/, 0$(!/(– 8$!/. (, $ #"'$( $("(!.&($$ #!.% "(!"!, %"/ $ ( &#(9. "(#!$(&$ &!$, 0.&$2 #!. % /("$&2/ !"(#!/ 0$(!/(! 3(&29 &$'0'1($*, /'%2 $4 #&($(, !#* #/$$!"$( 0"2(". # #/$$!"$/$ 0"2("/$ ."$ 6/ .$/9!* «."(.*!$*, $%91$( ."$ "'$3$$ $ !1(!&($$ ."(#."$$/(&2!%#(*(&2!$ !&(#!$( (#($* "'/$ '!#"!('(8(#("&2'$&$ "('$&2') $ /$3$.&2'."&($* #.&$(&24 09"%"$(!%$4 ."3(#", /(791$4 (#($9 0$(!$ ."(#!/"$91$4 /(#4"%(" $4 ."(#&($*» [5]. #$( $ !."$#!#/$$!"$4 0"2("!#(#&* $$%!&$* #&* %"".3$'#( !$* 0$(!/(, %&991('7$"%$ !.(%" #( !$ : /'(&2!#(&24 *%, #.&'«40$(!». !&(#(( ."(#!&*(!0«!%.!2 !"('$ $ %$% &!$, ! ./129 %"4 &!2 &$3( !$4 ."(#!$(&( $&$ #5( "'$3$ !"(/$!* 0(!.($2 ((%"&2 # 0$(!/ ! 3(&29 $&(($* #/$$!"$"(» [6]. 6/ !&( "(0(!.($(!* ( .&(//$ *%/$, (.!"(#!($!$%/$, $%"4 $ ."$"!9, - 0$(!/ $ #4#/ ('. $(!/(, %% $ $$%$, !!.9$$3$"/$ %"".3$4 $/7($ ! ."(#!$(&*/$ &!$, % %% .!&(#$(, $!.&2* !&!"(!"!, /'$!%!!(!#2 '#( !&$* #&* (#($* ."(#."$$/(&2!%#(*(&2!$. &* 0$(!/(."(#(&(( '"5#($(, $$% /5(!1(!&*2 1$, .%"$(&2!$("(!/ ('8$"/$#(: − 1$%'$ (%'/(7(&2!#(*(&2!2 !'."(#."$*$* !!"'!#"!(4 %"&$"91$4 $ ."4"$(&24 "', %5( "'$4 ."(!.4 '"..; − !#$* !&$ #&* .&($* (04#$/4 ."$ (#($$ 0$(!&'4 $ .#04 $/ &2'(."$#!(4 ./(1($ , %"(#$, 0"#$*, /("$&); − 8"/$"$* .(/ ."(#!&($* (04#$/4 $8"/3$$ $ !*( #&* 8$"/.&5($*, ."$ %"/ !&$*4 %%"('"%8%$(!%$ !$!* ('/.&$!/ $ . #. «"(#."$$/(&2, %"&7( /$.&$"(… !**/$ ! $$%/$, %(!* 0&(( !.(7/, (/ , %0(&$72 ."$#!/» [7], − /((#( 0!*(&2!"##( . &(( ',
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Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, No. 8 (8) / 2012 6 THE RATIONALE BEHIND WEAKLY TIED NETWORKING OF THE BANGLADESHI DIASPORA IN MALAYSIA Sultana Nayeem, Associate Professor Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh Phone: +880-1924752886, E-mail: sultana_nayeem@yahoo.ca Received August 7, 2012 ABSTRACT This paper is an exploration of the survival strategies of the Bangladeshi Diaspora in Malaysia. To cope with the realities, Bangladeshi migrants develop different forms of survival strategies. As a result intra and inter-ethnic strong and weak ties are formed in the receiving country. Empirical analysis depicts that respondents with weak ties have higher income mobility than those with strong ties. It also demonstrates that the Bangladeshi migrants of the study areas do not restrict themselves only to their close social networks; rather they develop distant networks for higher social mobility. Or in other words, though the ideal socio-cultural model emphasizes community cohesion (something that can be conceptualized as an example of a tightly structured social system), the actual behavior of the Bangladeshi migrants indicates a loosely or disintegrated social system. Migrant’s embeddedness in the ongoing social relations and power structures regulates the nature and strength of these ties. KEY WORDS Mixed embeddedness; Bangla bazaar; Bangladeshi diaspora; Strong ties; Weak ties. Migration and settlement of Bangladeshis in Malaysia is a common fact during this period of globalization. The question is, therefore, not whether Bangladeshis migrate, instead, how they survive in a foreign country and develop different strategies to improve their fortunes. Bearing this question in mind an intensive ethno-survey was conducted both in Bangladesh (country of origin) and Malaysia (country of residence)1. These migrants are found as the heterogeneous groups of people, embedded in the diverse realities and liabilities of the origin and host societies2. Therefore, in this study, the readers may come across their non-homogeneous interests and 1 Sultana, N. 2008. The Bangladeshi Diaspora in Malaysia. Organizational Structure, Survival Strategies and Networks, ZEF Development Studies. LIT: Berlin 2 Research for this study was carried out through the financial assistance of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). Field research in Malaysia and Bangladesh was conducted among the immigrants and their families from June 2005 till August 2006. Field research data are derived from an interview-survey among 150 current Bangladeshi migrants in Malaysia and intensive ethnographic fieldwork in Bangladesh and Malaysia. Along with 165 semistructured interviews (with returned and current migrants), some group discussions were arranged with returned migrants, their families, friends and neighbourhoods as well as with a N.G.O (established by well-off repatriated migrants). Sources of secondary data were literature reviews, newspaper articles, published and unpublished reports and conference papers. concomitant coping strategies. There (in the receiving society) networking is an asset. Our analysis has moreover evidenced that depending on their demands firstly of adaptation (to cope and survive in a foreign country) and secondly of upward mobility both strong and weak ties have been developed along the lines of horizontal and vertical networking. These networking are formulated (by the migrants) on the basis of the diverse everyday realities they face through their “mixed embeddedness”3. Regarding this, both the socio-economic, political and institutional structures of the origin and receiving countries as well as migrants’ socio-economic statuses, transnational contacts and duties are found as the regulators. Thus, along with bonds of strong and weak ties different types of alliances and cleavages are developed by the well-off and poor migrants in the horizontal level. Consequently, instead of homogeneity, heterogeneity and diversity are the common criteria for the Bangladeshi Diaspora in Malaysia. However, apart from these primordial types of networking, a kind of inter-ethnic strong (in 3 Robert Kloosterman, Joanne van der Leun and Jan Rath. 1999. Mixed Embeddedness: (In) formal Economic Activities and Immigrant Businesses in the Netherlands, p. 2.
SULTANA NAYEEM, University of Dhaka 7 ter-ethnic friendship, marital and other kinds of intimate relationships) and weak ties (commercial networking like partnership in business etc.) were also found as the outcome of the migrants’ embeddedness in the receiving society, with which after all they had to cope with. The question is which of these characteristics are prominent, how do they contribute to the organizational structure of the community and in what context does that happen? Therefore, in the next sections at first we will define how strong and weak ties are operationalized. Later on, Granovetter’s (1973, 1983, and 1985) conception of “strong” and “weak ties” and the concomitant strength of weak ties (posited by him) will be analyzed testing against the data of this study4. This type of comparison is important on the ground that the formulation of different forms of networking, like friendship (for adaptation) or distant relationships (for survival in the host society), were defined by the migrants as a must that may bear a resemblance to his (Granovetter) point of view. This study will continue discussion highlighting the following aspects: methodology; operational definitions of strong and weak ties; revisiting Granovetter’s conception on strong and weak ties. Methodology. A brief overview of the sources of data and the methods that were applied to collect data is important to support the arguments of this study. Field research in Malaysia and Bangladesh was conducted among the immigrants and their families from June 2005 till August 2006. Field research data are derived from an interview-survey among 150 current Bangladeshi migrants in Peninsular Malaysia and intensive ethnographic fieldwork (with returned and current migrants) in Bangladesh and Peninsular Malaysia. Applying snowball sampling (something usually applied to find hidden population) Bangladeshi respondents were selected. In fact, neither the immigration department of the host country nor the emigration authorities of the home country had any concrete information about Bangladeshi migrants. Likewise, the central statistics bureau, the local police as well as the Bangladesh 4 Mark S. Granovetter. 1973. The Strength of Weak Ties. AJS volume 78, Number 6 and Mark S. Granovetter. 1983. The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited. Sociological Theory, volume 1. See also Mark Granovetter. 1985. The University of Chicago. Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness. AJS Volume 91 Number 3, p. 481-510. High Commission in Malaysia failed to provide any data about the “hotspots” of Bangladeshi migrants or their statistical figure in Malaysia. On the contrary, each of them spoke of the migrants’ essentially mobile character. They also emphasized that Bangladeshi migrants used to stay and work there as undocumented workers and even, some of them could be found as husbands of Malaysians. Consequently, some open-ended questions were added in the survey questionnaires that provided information about the nature of their integration, embeddedness in local society and coping strategies. Besides, utilizing the networks of the respondents selected for interview-survey, interviewees were selected for more intensive interviews. These in-depth interviews were conducted to see whether or not the best solution was taken by Bangladeshi migrants to deal with their multidimensional embeddedness. Data, collected in that way, revealed that social networks, developed along the lines of horizontal and vertical networking, supported the migrants bearing their socio-cultural and psychological responsibilities in the transnational hubs. The said networks, moreover, decreased their costs of migration. Operational definitions of strong and weak ties. Trust is a common factor in close social networks. Unless an extreme situation (struggle for a scarce resource, e.g. an opportunity of migration to a foreign country) arrives, respective fellow feelings, duties and moral obligations remain intact within these strong ties that may echo the examples of the Chinese Gunaxi model as portrayed in Hammond’s work5. Referring to the work of Gao and Ting Toomey (1998) he has argued that the unconditional sharing of information (even secret) within the insider networks, is the main function of the Gunaxi relationship. In these relationships members are considered highly trustworthy and they are obliged to maintain that honor. According to him, within the insider networks relationships are perceived as family or like a family that cannot be altered except under extreme conditions. However, it is now known to us from the previous section’s discussion that with the exception of friends (that means fictive ties) most of the actors of strong ties always remain intimate since they possess common goals as each other’s consanguine and affine. 5 Scott et al. (2004)
Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, No. 8 (8) / 2012 8 For weak ties, the opposite situation is supposed to be normal, since this relationship is developed to mitigate different kinds of supply and demand. Since their (migrants’) close networks fail to fulfill their necessities (because of limited capabilities), they develop weak ties. For example, managing a way of migration or finding alternative sources of income etc. are fulfilled by developing weak ties. The actors of weak ties are not closely related to each other and hence do not meet frequently. In the same way, these people are not morally bound to assist each other, unless their service is purchased by the clients. Though the relationship is also developed instrumentalizing national brotherhood, but it mainly works depending on commercial exchange, instead of relying only on moral obligations (that can be seen in strong ties). Due to mutual demand for upward mobility well-off brokers support their clients (after extracting service charges from them) as parts of their manpower business; while on the other hand, in order to find ways of migration or higher income mobility, poor migrants develop relationships with them. Better-off businessmen cum brokers depend on poor migrants to make a profit via manpower and “hundy” business. They (the poor migrants) are also the buyers of Bangladeshi goods and food stuffs from these entrepreneurs’ enterprises, which operate in the study areas. Hence the actors of weak ties know that these ties are secondary (derivative/unoriginal) in nature and are essentially a tool for upward mobility. Accordingly it delineates that within the weak ties - all the actors cannot belong to the same so cio-economic position and are not the possessors of equal capabilities (as well). As a matter of fact, if they all held equal power, information and capabilities to command any act, then none of them would waste money and time on these then essentially useless their weak ties. Rather, as a rational human being, they would find their own way depending solely on their strong ties. As an opposite form of relationship the strong ties on the other hand, are informal and primary (fundamental/original) in nature. They become parts of their close social networks naturally, owing to their embeddedness in kinship (blood related and marital kin) and friendship circles. So, these are the strong and weak tie situations in the study areas of Peninsular Malaysia. Nevertheless, to make clear how strong and weak ties are operationalized in this research, discussion on the following variables are incorporated to extract ideas about the roles and modes of networking as a potential survival strategy. The variables and values are: Frequency - the following questions were asked to find out how often actors of a network meet or get chances for interpersonal interaction: With whom are you living here? With whom are you working here? Do you have any fixed place or area for community get together? Where is this meeting place? When do you usually meet? How do you pass your leisure time? Normally where do you meet your inter-ethnic friends? Concerning these queries the following table is constructed: Table 1 – Frequency of Networks Housemate Co-workers Fixed place for community get together Passing leisure time Get together with inter-ethnic friends Ethnic (61.3%) Alone (6.7%) Ethnic and inter-ethnic (32%) Ethnic And inter-ethnic (94.6%) Not fixed (5.3%) Yes (97.3%) No (2.7%) Within Neighbor-hood Outside 1-Housemates (18%) 2-Workmates (48.7%) 3-Mosjid and restaurant (15.3%) 4-Neighbour (18%) 1-Enjoying movies at home (9.3%) 2-Gossiping in local restaurant (12%) 3-Visiting local friends (10%) 1-Visiting Kotaraya (23.3%) 2-Going to pub 12.7%) 3-Attending religious, political meetings and community get together (32.6%) Source: Survey data in Peninsular Malaysia.
SULTANA NAYEEM, University of Dhaka 9 Table 1 denotes that apart from maintaining networks with their housemates, workmates and neighbors, Bangladeshis also attend different political and religious meetings and cultural celebrations. There are certain places for this kind of celebration which the migrants (both poor and better-off) try to visit. It is found that the betteroff migrants become the conveners of these cultural and politico-religious programs, where poor migrants participate in their free times. They visit Kotaraya (‘Bangla Bazaar’) to buy Bangladeshi goods from ethnic enterprises as well as to meet powerful labor brokers. The data also indicates that the migrants’ common living and working environment provides them the opportunity for regular contact with their ethnic and inter-ethnic friends. The common living and working niche as well as everyday interactions enable them to develop friendships with each other. In fact, along with the common experiences of immigration and everyday contacts, they (the Bangladeshis) face more or less the same realities as neighbors and workmates. Besides, they are found to spend their leisure hours together in their common surroundings (apart from visiting distant places and weak tie based networks). However, while the locals do not need to face an alien way of life (since they are all insiders there), owing to regular correspondence either in local restaurants or at their home and work places both of these groups still get the chance to construct networks. Bangladeshis meet the locals of Muslim belief in local mosque and “suraus”. Because of the same religious background (Islam) most of the Bangladeshi migrants and their (Malay, Indian Muslim and Indonesians etc.) friends enjoy and practice more or less similar religious festivals and rituals. Strength and Intensity - To pull out information on the emotional intensity, reciprocal exchange and respective obligations to each others in the network some questions were asked, such as: Whom do you consider your friend? How do you define your friend? Why do you maintain networks? How do you manage jobs and work permits? How did you get your dwelling place? Who introduced you to your employer? Where do you go to acquire a better job and other facilities? Do you pay them? Why do you assist poor/undocumented workers? How did you migrate? How do you send remittance to home country? How did you learn Bahasa? How do you manage to cope here? Why are you living together with others? How did/will you manage to stay longer? Why do you maintain homeland contacts? Why did you prefer inter-ethnic marriage? How did you meet your inter-ethnic spouse? How did you manage your business visa? How did you get this property? How did you manage risks? As a matter of fact, friendship ties were found primarily within people of the same socioeconomic background. For example, un-skilled and semi-skilled workers identified other workers as their friends who often also were their housemates, neighbors and workmates. In the same way, no professional and businessman was found who considered a semi-skilled and un-skilled worker as his or her friend. It is not likely that all of the neighbors or co-workers converted each other’s friend. Nor was national brotherhood considered as the only factor for friendship. Rather, migrants emphasized those as their friends whom they could trust in need. According to Ranjan Mallik (he used to work in a furniture factory of Kajang), “My co-workers, likewise Bangladeshi workers in Kajangjaya, are my friends. We are not so well-off. We have to send money to our families. I also have some friends in my home town. They take care of my family. Sometimes I send gifts for them or try to make phone calls. But I don’t have any girlfriend. I also don’t like the rich and educated Bangladeshis. They behave like we are not their countrymen. I know they would not assist me in danger. I don’t know any female workers. It is better to avoid them, because they might create extra burdens and our families would not be happy about that.” It can be ascertained (from the above comment) that professionals and businessmen generally are not friends with poor income groups. At the same time, it also assists us to know what they (the poor migrants) expect from their friends. Provision of trust, certainty, regular correspondence and assistance are the qualities among others through which their friendship is defined. On the basis of these moral and reciprocal obligations (for each other) they maintain friendship even with their home-based residues. Transnational networking helps them by allowing them to maintain contact with their home based friends. They (the migrants) are also assured that their friends reciprocate their obligations to the migrants by taking care of their families. These
Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, No. 8 (8) / 2012 10 types of reciprocal obligations may remind us of the Chinese style of reciprocity, which is, “favors are always remembered and returned, but not always quickly. People who don’t return favors are seen as poisoning the well”6. Migrants on the other hand, reciprocate their service through being related with them. Maintenance of correspondence sometimes by gift donations or by long distance phone calls (allowing migrants to keep themselves informed about recent events) eases the cross border friendships. Thus along with the consanguine and affine, friends (both home and abroad) become part of the close social networks of the migrants. All of the workers (100%) argued that they needed to buy these services (management of a new job, renewal of work permit, immigration to Malaysia, transfer of money back to home etc.) from their powerful patrons (e.g. brokers cum businessmen). They went on to say that these brokers tried to “cheat” workers if they noticed that their so-called clients failed to participate in their forgeries and other un-lawful activities. Poor migrants thus instead of feeling loyalty and gratefulness (what they feel for their strong tied networks) towards their distant vertical networks, preferred to consider them as a strategy for higher social mobility. Therefore, from the comparisons between horizontal (intimate networks) and vertical networking (distant networks) we may safely say that distant and close social networks fundamentally do not resemble each other. Strong ties and close social networks incorporate mutual feelings and emotions towards each other, whereas in weak ties the expectation of material gains (higher income mobility, finding ways of settlement etc.) was more vital than any other concerns. Considering weak ties as distant relationships, actors visit them only when they become unable to fulfill their demands. As a result, the relative frequency of interactions of weak ties is lesser than that of strong ties. Whilst poor migrants strive after vertical networking with their affluent country men, the well-off businessmen try to enrich themselves (buying houses, setting up business enterprises, managing permanent resident status, staying on spouse visa etc.) through inter-ethnic business and marital relationships as well as depending on intra-ethnic weak ties. They meet their interethnic spouses either as co-workers and neigh 6 Scott et al. (2004) bors (33.3%) or through inter-ethnic friends’ contacts (66.7%). Because of the embeddedness in the institutional structures of the host society, these well-off businessmen instrumentalize interethnic networking to by-pass the anti-integrating immigration policy. Therefore, these privileged Bangladeshis not only empower themselves through patron client relationships, but also through inter-ethnic business and marital relations. Learning from their predecessors, poor migrants also try to develop inter-ethnic strong ties as they can then settle down in Malaysia and gain different means for shadow economic activities. Consequently, though for intra-ethnic strong ties moral obligations are the major factor, for interethnic strong ties commercial necessity is also a significant factor (for Bangladeshi migrants). However, these are identified as strong ties (rather than weak ties) on the ground that the marital relationship opens a scope of options for integration into the host society. Regarding this, Bangladeshi husbands also do not need to pay their inter-ethnic spouses. Actors do not belong to separate households; rather they interact on a daily basis. Bangladeshi husbands and their interethnic wives have more or less common aims (the well-being of their offspring and household). Revisiting Granovetter’s Conceptions on Strong and Weak Ties7. In his two articles entitled ‘The Strength of Weak Ties’ and ‘The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited’, Granovetter (1973, 1983) sets some arguments on the functions of interpersonal networks, such as: (1) if any information is passed through weak ties it will reach a larger number of people and also cross more social distance than if same is attempted by strong ties (restricted to a small group of friends), because weak ties bridge different groups of people from different levels, (2) a person who has few or no weak ties is less likely to manage a way for upward mobility. Individuals with numerous weak ties can overcome this constraint. Since strong ties possess the same type of information that he already has, (such as, information about appropriate jobs openings at the exact time etc.), he fails to achieve his goals 7 See also Nayeem Sultana. 2010. The Solutions of the ‘Transmigrants’ Dilemma. The Bangladeshi Diaspora in Malaysia. Dhaka University Journal of Development Studies, 1(1): 181-192. Dhaka University Journal of Development Studies, 1(1): 181-192. Nayeem Sultana. 2010. Re-visiting the Strength of Weak Ties: Bangladeshi Migration to Malaysia. Journal of Diaspora Studies, 3(2): 115-142.
SULTANA NAYEEM, University of Dhaka 11 unless he increases his stock of information through forming weak ties. The hypothesis of the following statistical analysis is migrants with weak ties have higher income mobility than others with strong ties. Some proxies are made to define weak and strong ties, e.g. respondents were asked how they passed their leisure time? Their answers are coded as: Weak tie: visiting ‘Bangla Bazaar’ of Kotaraya, going to pubs and shopping centres, attending religious and political discussion and community get togethers. Strong tie: watching movies using satellite (with the housemates), visiting local friends (neighbours) and gossiping in a restaurant (local). We have regressed their monthly wage with both quantitative regressors: job alteration, length of stay in years in Malaysia and qualitative or dummy regressor: weak or strong tie. ANCOVA (Analysis of Covariance) model is as follows: i i i i i u X X D Y + + + + = 3 4 2 3 2 2 1 β β β β , where, iY = monthly wage of the ith migrant in RM, i X 2 = job alteration of the ith migrant, i X 3 = length of staying in years of the ith migrant, i D2 = 1, if the migrant has weak tie; 0, otherwise (if strong tie). With iu = error term, 1 β = constant, 4 3 2 , , β β β = coefficients of dummy, job alteration and length of staying respectively. The following regression results are obtained: i i i i X X D Y 3 2 2 228 . 83 556 . 93 779 . 363 295 .7 + + + − = ∧ se = (250.001) (173.518) (74.742) (19.806) t = (-.029) (2.096) (1.252) (4.202) p-value= (.977) (0.038)* (.213) (0.000)* R2 = .171, n= 150 Where, se means standard error of the estimated coefficient, t is t-statistic, p-value is the probability value, * - indicating p-value is significant at 5% level of significance, R2 is multiple coefficient of determination, i.e. the 17% variation in wages are explained by the regressors and n is the sample size. From the above results, it can be concluded that the dummy variable and length of stay have statistically significant relationship with the wage. Duration of migrant life in the host country has the strong positive effect on wage. Keeping all other variables constant, the average monthly wages of migrants with weak ties are higher by about RM 363.78 than those with strong ties. Our data in this study is cross-sectional one where heteroscedasticity may involve frequently. So, we assume that iu is normally distributed with mean zero and variance 2 i σ , i.e. iu ~ ) ,0 ( 2 i N σ . We test by graphical method and White’s general heteroscedasticity test (White, 1980) with the null hypothesis: H0: there is no heteroscedasticity in the error variance and found H0 may be rejected. Figure 1 – Plotting residual to check heteroscedasticy From the above figure, it is depicted that the residual term of the fitted regression showing heteroscedasticity for different values of the regressors. The variances of the error (according to the black line of zero value) are fluctuating for different values at different band width. Table 2 – White Heteroskedasticity Test Results F-statistic 9.932964 Probability 0.000000 Obs*R-squared 38.46709 Probability 0.000000 So, this study performed the White heteroscedasticity-consistent variances and standard error test for the remedy of heteroscedasticity and to get robust standard errors. Table 3 – White Heteroskedasticity-Consistent Standard Errors & Covariance Variable Coefficient Std. Error t-Statistic Prob. CONST -7.295058 279.9356 -0.026060 0.9792 Dummy 363.7786 130.4603 2.788424 0.0060 Alteration of job 93.55614 82.85140 1.129204 0.2607 Length of staying 83.22766 33.05351 2.517968 0.0129 -2000 -1000 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 0 2000 4000 6000 8000 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 Residual Actual Fitted