Work in Transition: Cultural Capital and Highly Skilled Migrants' Passages into the Labour Market

Arnd-Michael Nohl; Karin Schittenhelm; Oliver Schmidtke; Anja Weiss

Published by University of Toronto Press 2014

Work in Transition

Cultural Capital and Highly Skilled Migrants' Passages into the Labour Market

Arnd-Michael Nohl , Karin Schittenhelm , Oliver Schmidtke and Anja Weiss

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442668737

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Nohl Arnd-Michael :

Arnd-Michael Nohl is a professor of Education Science at Helmut-Schmidt-University.
Schittenhelm Karin :

Karin Schittenhelm is a professor of Sociology at the University of Siegen.
Schmidtke Oliver :

Oliver Schmidtke is a professor in the Departments of Political Science and History and Director of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria.
Weiss Anja :

Anja Weiss is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Reviews

Eleonore Kofman, Professor of Gender, Migration, and Citizenship, School of Law, Middlesex University:

“An original and serious advance on research in the field, Work in Transition will appeal both to those interested in the analysis of highly skilled transitions in general and to those particularly attracted by the comparative analysis.”

Harald Bauder, Director, Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement, Ryerson University:

“Work in Transition adds empirical depth and theoretical sophistication to the literature on cultural capital in a labour migration context.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
List of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Rules of Transcription Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
1. Highly Skilled Migrants: A Puzzling Socioeconomic Reality and a Challenge to Migration Research Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Relational Character of Cultural Capital in Migration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3. Multidimensional Status Passages: Migration, Labour Market Inclusion, and Private Life Domains Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
4. Aspects of the Multidimensional Status Passage: Phases, Migration Motives, and Cultural Capital among Foreign-Trained Migrants in Germany Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
5. Migration Control and Migrants’ Agency Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
6. Symbolic Struggles over Cultural Capital: Racial Discrimination and Symbolic Exclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
7. Up- and Downgrading Cultural Credit: A Cross-Country Comparison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
8. Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
Appendix 1 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Appendix 2 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
Appendix 3 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 360
Illustrations
- Other: 7 figures

eBook

Published: November 10, 2014
ISBN: 9781442668737