Work in Transition : Cultural Capital and Highly Skilled Migrants' Passages into the Labour Market /

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"Despite the fact that many countries target highly skilled migrants for recruitment in the global labour market, few of those migrants are able to take full advantage of their educational and professional qualifications in their new homes. Work in Transition examines this paradox, using extend...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Nohl, Arnd-Michael (Autor), Weiss, Anja (Autor), Schmidtke, Oliver (Autor), Schittenhelm, Karin, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social mobility.
Skilled labor.
Foreign workers.
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
social mobility.
Émigration et immigration > Aspect economique.
Mobilite sociale.
Social Mobility
Immigrants > Employment.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Highly skilled migrants: a puzzling socioeconomic reality and a challenge to migrations research
  • 2. The relational character of cultural capital in migration
  • 3. Multidimensional status passages: migration, labour market inclusion, and private life domains
  • 4. Aspects of the multidimensional status passage: phases, migration motives, and cultural capital among foreign-trained migrants in Germany
  • 5. Migration control and migrants' agency
  • 6. Symbolic struggles over cultural capital: racial discrimination and symbolic exclusion
  • 7. Up- and downgrading cultural credit: a cross-country comparison
  • 8. Conclusions
  • Appendix 1
  • Appendix 2
  • Appendix 3.

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