Social capital and other main influences on governance processes in cross-border micro-regions

2008 ◽  
pp. 67-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Deppisch
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Governance Processes

School Performance of Children of Cross-Border Marriages: Effects of Within-Family Social Capital and Community Contextual Factors

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-681
Author(s):  
Chun-Hao Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
School Performance ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Community Context ◽  
Performance Gap ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Family Social Capital ◽  
Central Taiwan ◽  
Asian Mothers

Similar to some other countries in East Asia, Taiwan has been experiencing a dramatic increase in children born to cross-border mothers. This phenomenon has drawn national attention to the school performance gap between children of Taiwanese and immigrant mothers. The present study focuses on the factors associated with these academic performance differences, in particular differential access to social capital or resources, and the community context. Drawing on data from a stratified sample of 940 elementary students in a county in central Taiwan, the researcher first illustrates the educational disadvantage of children born to Southeast Asian mothers. Second, the shortage of within-family social capital is shown to contribute to the performance gap between schoolchildren within different maternal ethnic backgrounds. Third, students’ preschool experience, educational attitudes, and behaviors all have positive association with their academic performance. In addition, the effects of within-family social capital and of maternal ethnic background can be moderated by community characteristics that show a broad picture of human capital, and socioeconomic status and heterogeneity of residents within school districts.

scholarly journals Mapping the Cultural Identities of Youths in Hong Kong from a Social Capital Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Qiaobing Wu ◽  
Ying Ou ◽  
Lucy P. Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Immigrant Students ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Local Students

With its unique geopolitical status and multicultural setting, Hong Kong has harbored different youth groups generated from cross-border migration with mainland China who are tied to different cultural values and identifications. This study aims to investigate how social capital embedded in the family, school, and community influences the cultural identities across three groups of Chinese youths in the educational system: local students; cross-border students (born in Hong Kong, living in the neighbor city of mainland China but attending schools in Hong Kong on daily commute); and new immigrant students (born in mainland China but living in Hong Kong for less than seven years). Using data from a cross-sectional survey with 2180 fourth- to ninth-grade students in Hong Kong, the logistic regression results suggest that family and community social capital play significant roles in shaping the cultural identity of youths. Implications of the research findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Foreign Venture Capital Firms in a Cross-Border Context: Empirical Insights from India

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 6265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kshitija Joshi ◽  
Deepak Chandrashekar ◽  
Alexander Brem ◽  
Kirankumar S. Momaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Venture Capital ◽  
Financial Capital ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Indian Origin ◽  
Venture Capital Firms ◽  
Fund Size ◽  
The Relationship

Syndication or co-investment is a potent way of pooling resources among peer Venture Capital (VC) firms. This is even more vital for Foreign VC firms (FVCFs) when investing in destinations that are geographically distant from their countries of origin. Although FVCFs are relatively abundantly endowed in terms of financial capital, they are distinctly disadvantaged in terms of their social capital when investing in geographies that are distinctly different in terms of their institutions, norms, and culture from their own. One of the ways in which FVCFs overcome this impediment is by investing in human resources that serve as a bridge between their financial and social capital. Accordingly, the primary aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the resources of FVCFs and their syndication intensity. Using the technique of logistic regression, we arrive at several interesting findings. FVCFs with a greater proportion of investment executives with prior founding experience in India and those with lower proportions of professionals of Indian origin demonstrate lower syndication intensity. Similarly, the syndication intensity diminishes with the increase in size of the investing team. FVCFs with greater fund size demonstrate a lower need for syndication. Greater endowment of social capital as proxied by the age of the VC firm is seen to enhance the syndication intensity.

Borders and Mobilities in the Middle East

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Natalia Ribas-Mateos
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Human Vulnerability ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
Big Cities ◽  
The Cross

This chapter addresses the transformation of geopolitical lines and borders in a globalizing world. In the Middle East, this transformation has been accompanied by severe social inequalities that have been expressed in a number of different ways: increasing limitations placed on the mobility of refugees and migrants, yet decreasing limitations on the cross-border flow of goods; a proliferation of refugee encampments and settlements (formal and informal); human vulnerability and rights violations; and expanded border securitization. In the case of Lebanon, these processes play out in especially stark fashion in big cities and border sites. This chapter focuses on one such site in an area of Lebanon: the Central Bekaa. It is important to start by looking at the context of borders and mobility in the Middle East. This chapter is based on original research that aims to provide an examination of certain aspects of borders and mobility, including the transnational circulation of displaced communities, cross-border networks, and how Syrian refugees in the Middle East—especially in Lebanon—navigate borders and deploy their own social capital in the process.

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