Migracijski proces v omrežni družbi

The article deals with the impact of the use of information and communication technologies on the migration process. In this context, it gives special emphasis to the individual action independent of time and space which is enabled by these technologies. In addition to the fact that this kind of action causes the transition from the territorial to the network organization of society, it allows migrants never to leave their physically distant homelands emotionally and socially, which is not in line with the current sociological portrait of a migrant. Starting from this premise, the article proposes a reconsidering of the concept of migrant, based on the conditions of the network society.Članek obravnava vpliv rabe informacijsko-komunikacijskih tehnologij na migracij­ski proces. V tem smislu poudarja časovno-prostorsko neodvisno delovanje, ki ga te tehnologije omogočajo. Poleg tega, da tovrstno delovanje povzroča prehod od območne k omrežni organizaciji družbe, migrantom omogoča, da fizično oddaljene izvorne domovine emocionalno in družbeno nikoli ne zapustijo, kar se ne sklada z dosedanjim sociološkim portretom migranta. Na teh izhodiščih prispevek med drugim odpira vprašanje o ponovnem premisleku koncepta migranta, in sicer v pogojih omrežne družbe