02346nas a2200193   4500008004100000022001400041245010300055210006900158300001000227490000600237520166200243653002301905653001501928653001501943653001801958653002301976100002801999856012502027       2014                        eng d  a2300-168200aNeighbourhood Ties and Migrant Networks: The Case of Circular Ukrainian Migrants in Warsaw, Poland0 aNeighbourhood Ties and Migrant Networks The Case of Circular Ukr  a41-620 v33 aThe paper deals with the importance of neighbourhood ties in the social networks of circular mi-grants. While existing research shows that social networks constitute a crucial element in the process of circular migration, not much is known about the extent to which these networks are territorialised. The paper discusses this issue by analysing the case of Ukrainian migrants in Warsaw and its suburbs, who are close to the receiving society in both cultural and geographic terms and thus make this group a unique case compared to immigrants travelling to Europe from more distant places. The analyses are based on data collected in a survey on Ukrainian migrants carried out in 2010 by the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, with the help of Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS). The studied sample consists of 342 respondents with different duration of migration from Ukraine to Poland. The paper argues that neighbourhood ties do not play an important role in the social capital and mobility patterns of Ukrainian circular migrants. The social relations of migrants are formed through ethnic and kinship ties, which are not related to a specific local area. The analyses also confirm earlier findings which show that Ukrainian migrants do not tend to concentrate spatially in the Warsaw metropolitan area, but which do point to the existence of small ethnic clusters. However, these seem to be determined by structural factors such as the availability of flats rather than individual preferences to live close to co-ethnics, which altogether suggests that there is a limited potential for local community formation among Ukrainian migrants.10acircular migration10aclustering10alocal ties10aneighbourhood10aUkrainian migrants1 aToruńczyk-Ruiz, Sabina  uhttp://ceemr.uw.edu.pl/sites/default/files/CEEMR_Vol_3_No_1_Torunczyk-Ruiz_Neighbourhood_Ties_and_Migrant_Networks_0.pdf