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This chapter describes the structural (such as network size and interconnectedness of the members who make up the network) and compositional properties (such as tie strength, duration, and family) of the international students’ networks. As transnationalism is operationalised in this study through the geographical dispersion of respondents’ social networks, this chapter describes transnationality at the level of both the individual and the network. The personal networks of the surveyed international students are described using key dimensions, focusing the analysis in the context of transnational perspectives and viewing it together with other characteristics of the networks.

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    Bonding refers to the tendency that individuals may have to associate with others who are similar to them, leading to homogeneous groups. Bridging occurs when individuals associate with others who are not like them, leading to heterogeneous groups (Putnam 2000; Putnam and Feldstein 2009).

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Kanagavel, R. (2019). Network Constituents: Exploring Contents. In: The Social Lives of Networked Students. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96199-6_4

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