Migrant Capital: Networks, Identities and Strategies

285 Pages·2015·3.186 MB·English

by  Louise Ryan, Umut Erel, Alessio D’Angelo (eds.)

Migration,DiasporasandCitizenship
Series Editors: Robin Cohen, Former Director of the International Migration
Institute and Professor of Development Studies, University of Oxford, UK and
ZigLayton-Henry,ProfessorofPolitics,UniversityofWarwick,UK
Editorial Board: Rainer Baubock, European University Institute, Italy; James
F. Hollifield, Southern Methodist University, USA; Jan Rath, University of
Amsterdam,TheNetherlands
TheMigration,DiasporasandCitizenshipseriescoversthreeimportantaspectsof
the migration progress. Firstly, the determinants, dynamics and characteristics
ofinternationalmigration.Secondly,thecontinuingattachmentofmanycon-
temporarymigrantstotheirplacesoforigin,signifiedbytheword‘diaspora’and
thirdlytheattempt,bycontrast,tobelongandgainacceptanceinplacesofset-
tlement,signifiedbytheword‘citizenship’.Theseriespublishesworkthatshows
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MIGRATIONANDCARELABOUR
Theory,PolicyandPolitics
RutvicaAndrijasevic
MIGRATION,AGENCYANDCITIZENSHIPINSEXTRAFFICKING
FloyaAnthiasandMojcaPajnik(editors)
CONTESTINGINTEGRATION,ENGENDERINGMIGRATION
TheoryandPractice
FionaBarker
NATIONALISM,IDENTITYANDTHEGOVERNANCEOFDIVERSITY
OldPolitics,NewArrivals
LorettaBass
AFRICANIMMIGRANTFAMILIESINANOTHERFRANCE
MichaelaBensonandNickOsbaldiston
UNDERSTANDINGLIFESTYLEMIGRATION
TheoreticalApproachestoMigrationandtheQuestforaBetterWayofLife
GideonCalder,PhillipColeandJonathanSeglow
CITIZENSHIPACQUISITIONANDNATIONALBELONGING
Migration,MembershipandtheLiberalDemocraticState
MichaelCollyer
EMIGRATIONNATIONS
PoliciesandIdeologiesofEmigrantEngagement
DanielConwayandPaulineLeonard
MIGRATION,SPACEANDTRANSNATIONALIDENTITIES
TheBritishinSouthAfrica
RosieCox(editor)
SISTERSORSERVANTS
AuPairs’LivesinGlobalContext
SaniyeDedeoglu
MIGRANTS,WORKANDSOCIALINTEGRATION
Women’sLabourintheTurkishEthnicEconomy
HuubDijstelbloemandAlbertMeijer(editors)
MIGRATIONANDTHENEWTECHNOLOGICALBORDERSOFEUROPE
ThomasFaistandAndreasEtte(editors)
THEEUROPEANIZATIONOFNATIONALPOLICIESANDPOLITICS
OFIMMIGRATION
BetweenAutonomyandtheEuropeanUnion
MartinGeigerandAntoinePécoud(editors)
THEPOLITICSOFINTERNATIONALMIGRATIONMANAGEMENT
JohnR.Hinnells(editor)
RELIGIOUSRECONSTRUCTIONINTHESOUTHASIANDIASPORAS
FromOneGenerationtoAnother
RonitLentinandElenaMoreo(editors)
MIGRANTACTIVISMANDINTEGRATIONFROMBELOWINIRELAND
CatrinLundström
WHITEMIGRATIONS
Gender,WhitenessandPrivilegeinTransnationalMigration
MajellaKilkey,DianePerrons,AniaPlomien
GENDER,MIGRATIONANDDOMESTICWORK
Masculinities,MaleLabourandFatheringintheUKandUSA
AmandaKlekowskivonKoppenfels
MIGRANTSOREXPATRIATES?
AmericansinEurope
MarieMacyandAlanH.Carling
ETHNIC,RACIALANDRELIGIOUSINEQUALITIES
ThePerilsofSubjectivity
GeorgeMenzandAlexanderCaviedes(editors)
LABOURMIGRATIONINEUROPE
LauraMoralesandMarcoGiugni(editors)
SOCIALCAPITAL,POLITICALPARTICIPATIONANDMIGRATIONINEUROPE
MakingMulticulturalDemocracyWork?
EricMorier-Genoud
IMPERIALMIGRATIONS
ColonialCommunitiesandDiasporainthePortugueseWorld
DominicPasura
AfricanTransnationalDiasporas
FracturedCommunitiesandPluralIdentitiesofZimbabweansinBritain
LudgerPriesandZeynepSezgin(editors)
CROSSBORDERMIGRANTORGANIZATIONSINCOMPARATIVEPERSPECTIVE
HelenSchwenkenandSabineRuß-Sattar
NEWBORDERANDCITIZENSHIPPOLITICS
ShanthiRobertson
TRANSNATIONALSTUDENT-MIGRANTSANDTHESTATE
TheEducation-MigrationNexus
LouiseRyan,UmutErelandAlessioD’Angelo(editors)
MIGRANTCAPITAL
Networks,IdentitiesandStrategies
OliviaSheringham
TRANSNATIONALRELIGIOUSSPACES
FaithandtheBrazilianMigrationExperience
EvanSmithandMarinellaMarmo
RACE,GENDERANDTHEBODYINBRITISHIMMIGRATIONCONTROL
SubjecttoExamination
VickySquire
THEEXCLUSIONARYPOLITICSOFASYLUM
HollyThorpe
TRANSNATIONALMOBILITIESINACTIONSPORTCULTURES
VronWare
MILITARYMIGRANTS
FightingforYOURCountry
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Migrant Capital
Networks, Identities and Strategies
Editedby
Louise Ryan
Co-DirectoroftheSocialPolicyResearchCentre,MiddlesexUniversity,UK
Umut Erel
Lecturer,OpenUniversity,UK
Alessio D’Angelo
SeniorLecturerinSocialSciences,MiddlesexUniversity,UK
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Contents
ListofTablesandFigures ix
Foreword xi
NotesonContributors xiv
Part I Capitals
Introduction:Understanding‘MigrantCapital’ 3
LouiseRyan,UmutErelandAlessioD’Angelo
1 ThinkingMigrantCapitalsIntersectionally:Usinga
BiographicalApproach 18
UmutErel
2 EmbodiedCulturalCapitalandtheStudyofEthnic
Inequalities 33
MajaCederberg
3 BreakingthroughtheGlassCeiling:Intercultural
CommunicationandtheCareerExperiencesofSkilled
ImmigrantManagers 48
SuhairDeebandHaraldBauder
4 TheRoleofCareinDevelopingCapitalsamongCaribbean
MigrantFamilies 64
TraceyReynolds
Part II Migrants’ActivismandCivicEngagement
5 MigrantOrganisations:EmbodiedCommunityCapital? 83
AlessioD’Angelo
6 Diaspora,theInternetandSocialCapital 102
JanrojKeles
7 EthnicSocialCapitalandPoliticalParticipationof
Immigrants 117
BarbaraHermanandDirkJacobs
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viii Contents
Part III EmbeddingandIntegratingNetworks
8 EmbeddinginMotion:AnalysingRelational,Spatialand
TemporalDynamicsamongHighlySkilledMigrants 135
LouiseRyanandJonMulholland
9 LookingInsidetheEthnicEnclave:Inequality,Social
CapitalandTransnationalism 154
JoséLuisMolina,HugoValenzuela-García,MirandaJessica
Lubbers,AlejandroGarcía-MacíasandJudithPampalona
10 PathsofLegalIntegrationandMigrantSocialNetworks:
TheCaseofFilipinaandRomanianFemaleDomestic
WorkersinItaly 172
TizianaCaponio
11 NetworkEmbeddednessofMigrants:ExploringVariations
acrossThreeNeighbourhoodsinVienna 188
PhilippSchnell,JosefKohlbacherandUrsulaReeger
12 ASpectrumofIntegration:ExaminingCombinationsof
BondingandBridgingSocialCapitalandNetwork
HeterogeneityamongAustralianRefugeeandSkilled
Migrants 207
RogerPatulny
References 230
Index 257
Tables and Figures
Tables
9.1 Occupationsselectedforthestudyandtheirprestige
scores 162
9.2 Numberandpercentageofbusinessesinthesample,per
typeofbusinessandoriginofowner 163
9.3 NetworksocialcapitalofIndianentrepreneursand
employeesinLloretdeMar 168
9.4 Networksocialcapitalaccessedthroughdifferenttypes
ofcontacts 169
11.1 Migrantgroupsperneighbourhoodaccordingtoregion
oforigin(percent) 191
11.2 Selectedcharacteristicsofthemigrantpopulation
withineachneighbourhood(percent) 192
11.3 Classificationofmigrants:Numberofclosecontacts
livinginthesameneighbourhood(percent) 194
11.4 Numberofclosecontactslivingintheneighbourhood
withwhommigrantsshareselectedactivitiesand
situations(percent) 197
11.5 Schematicdescriptionofclustersoflocalnetwork
embeddednessandtheirunderlyingdimensions 198
11.6 Degreeoflocalnetworkembeddedness,bymigrant
groupsperneighbourhood(percent) 199
11.7 Schematicpresentationofcorrelationsbetweenthe
degreeofnetworkembeddednessandselected
individualcontrolvariablesofmigrants,by
neighbourhood 200
12.1 Spectrumofsocialcapital-basedintegrationbyexpected
positionofmigrants 215
12.2 Logisticregressions,oddsratios,bridgingsocialcapital 224
12.3 Logisticregressions,oddsratios,bondingsocialcapital 226
Figures
3.1 Immigrantworkplaceintegration 50
5.1 GeographicdistributionofKurdishorganisationsand
Kurdishresidents 91
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