Arnd-Michael Nohl, Karin Schittenhelm, Oliver Schmidtke, Anja Weiss

Work in Transition

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9781442615687
• ISBN-10: 1442615680
• Artikelnr.: 40904487

Autorenporträt

By Arnd-Michael Nohl, Karin Schittenhelm, Oliver Schmidtke, and Anja Weiss

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
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 I
Appendix II
Appendix III
References