Migrant Capital: Networks, Identities and Strategies

Migrant Capital: Networks, Identities and Strategies

Migrant Capital: Networks, Identities and Strategies

Migrant Capital: Networks, Identities and Strategies

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349467716
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 01/01/2015
Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
Edition description: 1st ed. 2015
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Floya Anthias, Roehampton University, UK Harald Bauder, Ryerson University, Canada Tiziana Caponio, University of Turin, Italy Maja Cederberg, Oxford Brookes University, UK Suhair Deeb Ryerson University, Canada Alejandro García-Macías, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico Dirk Jacobs, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Barbara Herman, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Janroj Keles, Brunel University, UK Josef Kohlbacher, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Miranda Jessica Lubbers, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Jose Luis Molina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Jon Mulholland, Middlesex University, UK Judith Pampalona, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Roger Patulny, University of New South Wales, Australia Tracey Reynolds, London South Bank University, UK Philipp Schnell, University of Vienna, Austria Ursula Reeger, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Hugo Valenzuela-García, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Table of Contents

Preface. Floya Anthias PART I: CAPITALS Introduction. Understanding 'Migrant Capital' 1. Thinking Migrant Capitals Intersectionally: Using a Biographical Approach; Umut Erel 2. Embodied Cultural Capital and the Study of Ethnic Inequalities; Maja Cederberg 3. Breaking through the Glass Ceiling: Intercultural Communication and the Career Experiences of Skilled Immigrant Managers; Suhair Deeb and Harald Bauder 4. The Role of Care in Developing Capitals among Caribbean Migrant Families; Tracey Reynolds PART II: MIGRANTS' ACTIVISM AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT 5. Migrant Organisations: Embodied Community Capital?; Alessio D'Angelo 6. Diaspora, the Internet and Social Capital; Janroj Keles 7. Ethnic Social Capital and Political Participation of Immigrants; Barbara Herman and Dirk Jacobs PART III: EMBEDDING AND INTEGRATING NETWORKS 8. Embedding in Motion: Analysing Relational, Spatial and Temporal Dynamics among Highly Skilled Migrants; Louise Ryan and Jon Mulholland 9. Looking Inside the Ethnic Enclave: Inequality, Social Capital and Transnationalism; Jose Luis Molina, Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia, Miranda Jessica Lubbers, Alejandro Garcia-Macias, and Judith Pampalona 10. Paths of Legal Integration and Migrant Social Networks: The Case of Filipina and Romanian Female Domestic Workers in Italy; Tiziana Caponio 11. Network Embeddedness of Migrants: Exploring Variations across Three Neighbourhoods in Vienna; Philipp Schnell, Josef Kohlbacher and Ursula Reeger 12. A Spectrum of Integration: ExaminingCombinations of Bonding and Bridging Social Capital and Network Heterogeneity amongst Australian Refugee and Skilled Migrants; Roger Patulny
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