Revisiting Migrant Networks Migrants and their Descendants in Labour Markets

This open access book provides new conceptualisations on the networks of migrants and their descendants in accessing the labour market. Although references to social networks are common in discussions of migration, simplified ideas of co-ethnic networks often obscure the reality, for example confoun...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Keskiner, Elif, editor (editor), Eve, Michael, editor, Ryan, Louise, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2022.
Edición:1st ed. 2022.
Colección:Springer open access eBooks.
IMISCOE Research Series,
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46287851*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Revisiting Networks: setting the conceptual and methodological scene
  • Chapter 2. The direct and indirect role of migrants' networks in accessing diverse labour market sectors: an analysis of the weak/ strong ties continuum
  • Chapter 3. Are "weak ties" really weak? Social capital reliance among second generation Turkish lawyers in Paris
  • Chapter 4. Context matters: the varying roles of social ties for professional careers of immigrants' descendants
  • Chapter 5. Access to employment of the second generations in France: unequal role of family and personal networks by Origins and Gender
  • Chapter 6. Social capital, immigrants and their descendants - the case of Sweden
  • Chapter 7.Activating Social Capital: Steep mobility of descendants of immigrants at the top of the corporate business sector
  • Chapter 8. Reciprocity within Migrant Networks: The Role of Social Support for Employment
  • Chapter 9. Networks in Migration Processes
  • Chapter 10. Early-career academics' transnational moves: The gendered role of vertical social ties in obtaining academic positions abroad
  • Chapter 11: Epilogue. Where Did Weak and Strong Ties Go Wrong?.