Migrant Capital

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.

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