Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation : : Everyday Lives of Poor Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong /

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Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation : : Everyday Lives of Poor Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong / / Sam Wong.

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This volume argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is unlikely to succeed because its mainstream approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. The inadequacy of that assumption, Sam Wong argues, calls for a reassessment of human motivations, institu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Wong, Sam,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2007]
©2008
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:ICAS Publications
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Physical Description:1 online resource (220 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Summary contents
  • Detailed contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 1. Building a ,Pro-Poor' Social Capital Framework
  • 2. Ethnography - Alternative Research Methodology
  • 3. Historical and Cultural Contexts of Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
  • 4. Investing in Social Capital? - Considering the Paradoxes of Agency in Social Exchange
  • 5. ,Getting the Social Relations Right'? - Understanding Institutional Plurality and Dynamics
  • 6. Rethinking Authority and Power in the Structures of Relations
  • 7. Conclusions and Policy Implications
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Annex 1
  • Annex 2
  • Index

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