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Migrant Capital : Networks, Identities and Strategies.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship SeriesPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (285 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137348807
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Migrant CapitalLOC classification:
  • HM
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I: Capitals -- Introduction: Understanding 'Migrant Capital' -- 1 Thinking Migrant Capitals Intersectionally: Using a Biographical Approach -- 2 Embodied Cultural Capital and the Study of Ethnic Inequalities -- 3 Breaking through the Glass Ceiling: Intercultural Communication and the Career Experiences of Skilled Immigrant Managers -- 4 The Role of Care in Developing Capitals among Caribbean Migrant Families -- Part II: Migrants' Activism and Civic Engagement -- 5 Migrant Organisations: Embodied Community Capital? -- 6 Diaspora, the Internet and Social Capital -- 7 Ethnic Social Capital and Political Participation of Immigrants -- Part III: Embedding and Integrating Networks -- 8 Embedding in Motion: Analysing Relational, Spatial and Temporal Dynamics among Highly Skilled Migrants -- 9 Looking Inside the Ethnic Enclave: Inequality, Social Capital and Transnationalism -- 10 Paths of Legal Integration and Migrant Social Networks: The Case of Filipina and Romanian Female Domestic Workers in Italy -- 11 Network Embeddedness of Migrants: Exploring Variations across Three Neighbourhoods in Vienna -- 12 A Spectrum of Integration: Examining Combinations of Bonding and Bridging Social Capital and Network Heterogeneity among Australian Refugee and Skilled Migrants -- References -- Index.
Summary: Migrant Capital covers a broad range of case studies and, by bringing together leading and emerging researchers, presents state-of-the-art empirical, theoretical and methodological perspectives on migration, networks, social and cultural capital, exploring the ways in which these bodies of literature can inform and strengthen each other.
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Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I: Capitals -- Introduction: Understanding 'Migrant Capital' -- 1 Thinking Migrant Capitals Intersectionally: Using a Biographical Approach -- 2 Embodied Cultural Capital and the Study of Ethnic Inequalities -- 3 Breaking through the Glass Ceiling: Intercultural Communication and the Career Experiences of Skilled Immigrant Managers -- 4 The Role of Care in Developing Capitals among Caribbean Migrant Families -- Part II: Migrants' Activism and Civic Engagement -- 5 Migrant Organisations: Embodied Community Capital? -- 6 Diaspora, the Internet and Social Capital -- 7 Ethnic Social Capital and Political Participation of Immigrants -- Part III: Embedding and Integrating Networks -- 8 Embedding in Motion: Analysing Relational, Spatial and Temporal Dynamics among Highly Skilled Migrants -- 9 Looking Inside the Ethnic Enclave: Inequality, Social Capital and Transnationalism -- 10 Paths of Legal Integration and Migrant Social Networks: The Case of Filipina and Romanian Female Domestic Workers in Italy -- 11 Network Embeddedness of Migrants: Exploring Variations across Three Neighbourhoods in Vienna -- 12 A Spectrum of Integration: Examining Combinations of Bonding and Bridging Social Capital and Network Heterogeneity among Australian Refugee and Skilled Migrants -- References -- Index.

Migrant Capital covers a broad range of case studies and, by bringing together leading and emerging researchers, presents state-of-the-art empirical, theoretical and methodological perspectives on migration, networks, social and cultural capital, exploring the ways in which these bodies of literature can inform and strengthen each other.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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