“…Massey, 1990Massey, , 2008Alarcón, 1992;Massey and Espinosa, 1997;Massey et al, 1998;Phillips and Massey, 2000;Palloni et al, 2001;Durand and Massey, 2004;Fussell and Massey, 2004). In addition to the massive literature on Mexican migration to the USA, the importance of networks to the migration decision have been found for many other cases as well; for example, Japanese (Jedlicka, 1979); Italians (Moretti, 1999); Germans (Bauer and Zimmermann, 1997;Wegge, 1998); Hong Kong Chinese (Siu-Lun Wong and Salaff, 1998); Indians (Banerjee, 1983;Poros, 2002;Harvey, 2008); Turks (Böcker, 1994(Böcker, , 1995 and Central and Eastern Europeans (Dahinden, 2005;Haug, 2005Haug, , 2008Elrick and Ciobanu, 2009). For general treatments of sociological theory and methods of network analysis, see Wasserman and Faust (1994).…”