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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nohl, Arnd-Michael, author.

Schittenhelm, Karin, author.

Schmidtke, Oliver, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers.

Immigrants--Employment.

Immigrants.

Skilled labor.

Social mobility.

Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

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."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

1. Highly skilled migrants: a puzzling socioeconomic reality and a challenge to migrations 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:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-340) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-6874-1

1-4426-6873-3

OCLC:

900244318