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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.

Table of Contents
List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements 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 I Appendix II Appendix III References

Work in Transition

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    A Paperback by Anja Weiss, Karin Schittenhelm, Oliver Schmidtke

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      Publisher University of Toronto Press
      Published 1/31/2014 12:10:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781442615687
      978-1442615687
      ISBN-10 1442615680
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      Migration, immigration and emigration

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements 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 I Appendix II Appendix III References

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