Migrants, Minorities, Belongings and Citizenship. Glocalization and ...

● Characteristics of transnational spaces in terms of the degree and intensity of crossborder
co-operation, loyalty constructions, participation, voice, and access.
● Types of interplays between glocal, transnational, and traditional channels of voice,
participation, and access in terms of exchanges of people, double roles, formation
and transfer of values and ideas, mutual influence and interference.
● Types of national and supranational policy tools and social conditions that affect the
formation and persistency of misalignments, and glocal, transnational, and
traditional channels of voice, participation, and access to public arenas.
● Similarities and differences between participation, voice and access forms of
citizens, historical-native minorities, second and third country nationals, and extra-
European citizens residing in second countries at the micro-level.
In this exploratory phase, the project has designed the QC-CITBASE and has stored the
collected qualitative comparative data in a standard format coded in form of discrete and
ordinal variables. The technical features of this database are:
- comparative across cases (i.e. enablingstorage of information in a standard format);
- comparative across variables (i.e. allowing aggregation and quantification);
- context-sensitive (i.e. allowing storage of conditions non-existent in other cases);
- updateable over time (i.e. allowing storage of new data cumulatively);
- extendable to other small/big countries (i.e. allowing addition of data from new
cases);
- extendable to new variables (i.e. allowing quantification and recoding);
- comprising descriptive as well as analytical data;
- user-friendly.
It is important to note that the data are not collected from samples that are statistically
representative. The reason for this is that the project was exploratory and qualitatively
oriented already from the beginning. With the qualitative data available in Glocalmig, this
database is primarily a qualitative database which allows micro-levels of analysis.
However, the database is designed in such a way that, if data from statistically
representative samples are stored in it, it can also be used as a quantitative database in
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