Exploring 'unseen' social capital in community participation : everyday lives of poor mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong /

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"This book argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is less likely to succeed because the mainstream neoinstitutional approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. This inadequacy calls for a re-assessment of human motivations, institutional dyna...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wong, Sam
Autor Corporativo: International Convention of Asia Scholars
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2007.
Colección:ICAS publications series. Monographs ; 2.
Temas:
Since 1949
Infrastructure (Economics) > China > Citizen participation.
Poor > China > Social conditions.
Migrant labor > China > Hong Kong > Social conditions.
Pauvres > Chine > Conditions sociales.
Travailleurs migrants > Chine > Hongkong > Conditions sociales.
Society and social sciences.
Mathematics and science.
Science: general issues.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Economic policy
Infrastructure (Economics) > Citizen participation
Migrant labor > Social conditions
Poor > Social conditions
Social conditions
Einwanderer
Alltag
China > Social conditions > 1949-
China > Economic policy > 1949-
Chine > Conditions sociales > 1949-
Chine > Politique économique > 1949-
China
China > Hong Kong
Hongkong
Chinesen.
Popular science
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Building a 'pro-poor' social capital framework
  • Ethnography : alternative research methodology
  • Historical and cultural contexts of mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong
  • Investing in social capital? : considering the paradoxes of agency in social exchange
  • 'Getting the social relations right'? : understanding institutional plurality and dynamics
  • Rethinking authority and power in the structures of relations
  • Conclusions and policy implications.

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