Exploring 'unseen' social capital in community participation : : everyday lives of poor mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong / / Sam Wong.

• Superior document: ICAS publications series. Monographs ; 2
• Author: International Convention of Asia Scholars.; Wong, Sam.
• TeilnehmendeR: International Convention of Asia Scholars.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: ICAS publications series. Monographs ; 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (219 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021).

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...

Table of Contents

• Front matter
• 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