ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 showed how a structurationist approach is useful in revealing the individual agent and her central role in enabling the very existence of, or in “structuring,” her immediate structures through a process of institutionalization. However, as discussed in Chapter 4, there is a need for a more specific and embodied usage of the structurationist approach to more appropriately account for capability in FODW agency. This chapter takes up the task of providing a more specific application of the structurationist approach. It presents a conceptualization of a “FODW institution” as a specific form of Goss and Lindquist’s more general concept of the “migrant institution.” In this way, it provides the backcloth for the conceptualization of FODW agency, onto which a conceptualization of FODW capability can then be juxtaposed in the next chapter, and finally related in Chapters 7 and 8.
