Migrant Capital: Networks, Identities and Strategies (Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship)

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. Migrant Capital 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. In so doing, it brings the theoretical and methodological dimensions into dialogue with each other. The migrants discussed in the book are ethnically and socio-economically diverse and have a range of migratory trajectories and experiences. Various types of networks are looked at and compared: intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic; locally-based, national and transnational; informal and formal, including migrant community organisations. Migrant Capital is international in focus drawing on research from Australia, North America, the Caribbean and across Europe. Migration research often focuses on individual cases, thereby running the risk of over-emphasising the peculiarities of particular migrant groups and locations, leading to criticisms of empirical nationalism. The range of case studies in this collection can open up a comparative perspective in order to contribute to a broader theoretical framework rooted in empirical research Front Matter....Pages i-xx Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction Understanding ‘Migrant Capital’....Pages 3-17 Thinking Migrant Capitals Intersectionally: Using a Biographical Approach....Pages 18-32 Embodied Cultural Capital and the Study of Ethnic Inequalities....Pages 33-47 Breaking through the Glass Ceiling: Intercultural Communication and the Career Experiences of Skilled Immigrant Managers....Pages 48-63 The Role of Care in Developing Capitals among Caribbean Migrant Families....Pages 64-79 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Migrant Organisations: Embodied Community Capital?....Pages 83-101 Diaspora, the Internet and Social Capital....Pages 102-116 Ethnic Social Capital and Political Participation of Immigrants....Pages 117-132 Front Matter....Pages 133-133 Embedding in Motion: Analysing Relational, Spatial and Temporal Dynamics among Highly Skilled Migrants....Pages 135-153 Looking Inside the Ethnic Enclave: Inequality, Social Capital and Transnationalism....Pages 154-171 Paths of Legal Integration and Migrant Social Networks: The Case of Filipina and Romanian Female Domestic Workers in Italy....Pages 172-187 Network Embeddedness of Migrants: Exploring Variations across Three Neighbourhoods in Vienna....Pages 188-206 A Spectrum of Integration: Examining Combinations of Bonding and Bridging Social Capital and Network Heterogeneity among Australian Refugee and Skilled Migrants....Pages 207-229 Back Matter....Pages 230-268 'Migrant Capital' 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. In so doing, it brings the theoretical and methodological dimensions into dialogue with each other. The migrants discussed in the book are ethnically and socio-economically diverse and have a range of migratory trajectories and experiences. Various types of networks are looked at and compared: intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic; locally-based, national and transnational; informal and formal, including migrant community organisations. 'Migrant Capital' is international in focus drawing on research from Australia, North America, the Caribbean and across Europe. Migration research often focuses on individual cases, thereby running the risk of over-emphasising the peculiarities of particular migrant groups and locations, leading to criticisms of empirical nationalism. The range of case studies in this collection can open up a comparative perspective in order to contribute to a broader theoretical framework rooted in empirical research.-- Provided by publisher