Work in Transition : : Cultural Capital and Highly Skilled Migrants' Passages into the Labour Market / / Arnd-Michael Nohl, Karin Schittenhelm, Oliver Schmidtke, Anja Weiss.
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 nar...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 7 figures |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Rules of Transcription
- 1. Highly Skilled Migrants: A Puzzling Socioeconomic Reality and a Challenge to Migration 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
- Notes
- References
- Index