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Work in Transition : Cultural Capital and Highly Skilled Migrants' Passages into the Labour Market / Arnd-Michael Nohl, Karin Schittenhelm, Oliver Schmidtke, Anja Weiss.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) : 7 figuresContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442647602
  • 9781442668737
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.6/2 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 narrative interviews that focus on the role that cultural capital plays in the labour market.Comparing the migrant experience in Germany, Canada, and Turkey, 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. Exposing the mechanisms that drive inclusion and exclusion for migrants from a transatlantic comparative perspective, this book provides a unique analytical approach to an increasingly important global issue.

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

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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 narrative interviews that focus on the role that cultural capital plays in the labour market.Comparing the migrant experience in Germany, Canada, and Turkey, 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. Exposing the mechanisms that drive inclusion and exclusion for migrants from a transatlantic comparative perspective, this book provides a unique analytical approach to an increasingly important global issue.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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