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The volume and dynamics of international migration and transnational social spaces / Thomas Faist.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2000Description: xiv, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0198297262
  • 9780198297260
  • 0198293917
  • 9780198293910
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.8201 21
LOC classification:
  • JV6035. F35 2000
Contents:
Lacunae of migration and post-migration research -- A review of dominant theories of international migration -- Situating the first puzzle: why so few migrants and why so many? -- The crucial meso link: social capital in social and symbolic ties -- The selective function of social capital: why are there so few migrants out of most places? -- The selective and diffusion functions of social capital: why so may migrants out of so few places? -- The bridging functions of social capital: transnational social spaces -- The adaptive functions of social capital: transnationalization and nation-state membership -- Elements for multi-level research on international migration and post-migration processes.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-368) and index.

Lacunae of migration and post-migration research -- A review of dominant theories of international migration -- Situating the first puzzle: why so few migrants and why so many? -- The crucial meso link: social capital in social and symbolic ties -- The selective function of social capital: why are there so few migrants out of most places? -- The selective and diffusion functions of social capital: why so may migrants out of so few places? -- The bridging functions of social capital: transnational social spaces -- The adaptive functions of social capital: transnationalization and nation-state membership -- Elements for multi-level research on international migration and post-migration processes.

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