Work in Transition

Cultural Capital and Highly Skilled Migrants' Passages Into the Labour Market

AvArnd-Michael Nohl,Karin Schittenhelm

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

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 extended narrative interviews that focus on the role that cultural capital plays in the labour market.Comparing the migrant experience in Germany, Canada, and Turkey, Work in Transition shows how migrants develop their cultural capital in order to enter the workforce, as well as how failure to leverage that capital can lead to permanent exclusion from professional positions. Exposing the mechanisms that drive inclusion and exclusion for migrants from a transatlantic comparative perspective, this book provides a unique analytical approach to an increasingly important global issue.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-10-31
Mått:152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:360
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781442615687

Utforska kategorier

Migration inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Arnd-Michael Nohl is a professor of Education Science at Helmut-Schmidt-University.Karin Schittenhelm is a professor of Sociology at the University of Siegen.Oliver Schmidtke is a professor in the Departments of Political Science and History and Director of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria.Anja Weiss is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Innehållsförteckning

List of TablesList of FiguresAcknowledgements1. Highly Skilled Migrants: A Puzzling Socioeconomic Reality and a Challenge to Migrations Research2. The Relational Character of Cultural Capital in Migration3. Multidimensional Status Passages: Migration, Labour Market Inclusion, and Private Life Domains4. Aspects of the Multidimensional Status Passage: Phases, Migration Motives, and Cultural Capital among Foreign-trained Migrants in Germany5. Migration Control and Migrants’ Agency6. Symbolic Struggles over Cultural Capital: Racial Discrimination and Symbolic Exclusion7. Up- and Downgrading Cultural Credit: A Cross-Country Comparison8. ConclusionsAppendix IAppendix IIAppendix IIIReferences