Migrant Capital [electronic resource] : Networks, Identities and Strategies /
D'Angelo, Alessio.author.
Ryan, L.editor.
Erel, U.editor.
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; 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 Capital7 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 MigrantsReferences; Index
Includes bibliographical references and 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.
Sociology.
Emigration and immigration.
Ethnicity.
Social sciences.
Social justice.
Human rights.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Sociology, general.
Migration.
Ethnicity Studies.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.