scholarly journals Social Capital and Migration: How Do Similar Resources Lead to Divergent Outcomes?

Demography ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 591-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filiz Garip
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
And Migration

Enhancing social indicators research in a forest-dependent community

1999 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 771-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Parkins
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Statistical Information ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Measure Change ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Northern Alberta

Forest industry host communities are receiving increased attention from policy makers, academics, and municipal leaders. Recently, this attention is trained on measuring social and economic change at the community level and on identifying and developing avenues to greater community well-being. This paper examines aspects of two common social indicators, employment and migration, in the context of a forest-dependent community in Northern Alberta. By using statistical information along with two other major data sources that include interviews with local residents and a variety of reports from local institutions, specific social changes taking place within the community are described. Readers are cautioned against relying solely on statistical information to measure change and are encouraged to triangulate data with local sources. Such efforts may be more time consuming but the results are likely to provide more important insights into how and why certain communities are prospering while others are struggling. The paper concludes with a discussion of social capital as a crucial dimension of community well-being. Key words: forest-dependent communities, social indicators, employment, migration, mobility, community well-being, social capital

scholarly journals Social Capital and Migration in Rural Area Development

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 543-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunawan Prayitno ◽  
Kakuya Matsushima ◽  
Hayeong Jeong ◽  
Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Area Development

scholarly journals Individual social capital and migration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie L. Hotchkiss ◽  
Anil Rupasingha
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Individual Social Capital ◽  
And Migration

scholarly journals Unequal Youth Migrations: Exploring the Synchrony between Social Ageing and Social Mobility among Post-Crisis European Migrants

Sociology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 1160-1176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Varriale
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Downward Social Mobility

This article explores how symbolic boundaries between youth and adulthood shape experiences of upward and downward social mobility among EU migrants. Drawing on 56 biographical interviews with Italians who moved to England after the 2008 economic crisis, and focusing on three individual case studies, the article reveals that normative understandings of adulthood emerge as a central concern from participants’ biographical accounts, and that they mobilise unequal forms of cultural, economic and social capital to maintain a feeling of ‘synch’ between social ageing and social mobility. Drawing on Bourdieu and the sociology of adulthood, the article proposes the notion of synchrony to explore how tensions in the relationship between social ageing and social mobility shape experiences of migration. This allows for an innovative theoretical bridge between cultural class analysis, adulthood studies and migration studies, and for a better understanding of how intersections of class and age shape intra-European migrations.

The Social Process of Undocumented Border Crossing among Mexican Migrants

1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 561-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Singer ◽  
Douglas S. Massey
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Undocumented Migrants ◽  
Mexican Migrants ◽  
Enforcement Effort ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Human And Social Capital ◽  
Specific Human Capital

In this article a theoretical model is developed that views undocumented border crossing as a well-defined social process influenced by the quantity and quality of human and social capital that migrants bring with them to the border, and constrained by the intensity and nature of U.S. enforcement efforts. Detailed histories of border crossing from undocumented migrants originating in 34 Mexican communities are employed to estimate equations corresponding to this model. On first trips, migrants rely on social ties to locate a guide to help them across the border. As people gain experience in border crossing, they rely less on the assistance of others and more on abilities honed on earlier trips, thus substituting migration-specific human capital for general social capital. The probability of apprehension is influenced by different factors on first and later trips. On initial trips, crossing with either a paid (coyote) or unpaid (a friend or relative) guide dramatically lowers the odds of arrest; but on subsequent trips mode of crossing has no effect on the odds of apprehension, which are determined primarily by the migrant's own general and migration-specific human capital. On all trips, the intensity of the U.S. enforcement effort has little effect on the likelihood of arrest, but INS involvement in drug enforcement sharply lowers the odds of apprehension.

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