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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Nohl, Arnd-Michael (Author), Schittenhelm, Karin, 1957- (Author), Schmidtke, Oliver (Author), Weiss, Anja (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Foreign workers.
Immigrants > Employment.
Skilled labor.
Social mobility.
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Social Mobility
Mobilité sociale.
Émigration et immigration > Aspect économique.
Travailleurs étrangers.
social mobility.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
Foreign workers
Skilled labor
Social mobility
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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