This article is situated at the nexus of migration research and qualitative social network analysis (SNA). While migration scholars often engage with networks simply as metaphors, I go further by examining how a thorough engagement with qualitative SNA can contribute to migration research in at least three key ways. First, exploring changing relational ties over time and across different places, including transnationally, I demonstrate that qualitative SNA offers new insights into how migrants make sense of these dynamic relationships. Second, following Dahinden (2016), I examine how using networks as a data collection method can help to unsettle the a priori ethnic lens in researching migration. Moreover, building on the pioneering work of network scholars such as Mische and White, I aim to make a methodological contribution by analysing how social networks are co-constructed as stories and pictures in research encounters.

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讲述网络故事：研究移民随时间变化的社会关系

本文位于移民研究和定性社交网络分析 (SNA) 之间。虽然移民学者通常只是将网络作为隐喻来参与，但我进一步研究了与定性 SNA 的彻底接触如何至少在三个关键方面对移民研究做出贡献。首先，探索随着时间和不同地点（包括跨国）关系关系的变化，我证明定性 SNA 为移民如何理解这些动态关系提供了新的见解。其次，在 Dahinden (2016) 之后，我研究了使用网络作为数据收集方法如何有助于解决移民研究中的先验种族问题。此外，在 Mische 和 White 等网络学者的开创性工作的基础上，