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Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation : Everyday Lives of Poor Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2007 [©2007.]

1 online resource (220 pages)

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Print version: Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation : Everyday Lives of Poor Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong

978-90-485-0105-2

978-90-5356-034-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 844926353     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

MS 3600      Ähnliche Literatur

HC430.C3

305.569095125

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LOC-SH: Poor -- China -- Social conditions ; China -- Social conditions -- 1949- ; China -- Economic policy -- 1949- ; Infrastructure (Economics) -- China -- Citizen participation ; Migrant labor -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions ; Infrastructure (Economics) -- China -- Citizen participation ; Poor -- China -- Social conditions ; Migrant labor -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions ; China -- Social conditions -- 1949- ; China -- Economic policy -- 1949-

China ; Economic policy ; 1949- ; China ; Social conditions ; 1949- ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; China ; Citizen participation ; Migrant labor ; China ; Hong Kong ; Social conditions ; Poor ; China ; Social conditions ; Electronic books

Using ethnographic and participatory methods, this timely volume calls for an exploration of 'unseen' social capital.

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Intro -- Summary contents -- Detailed contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Ch. 1: Building a 'Pro-Poor' Social Capital Framework -- Ch. 2: Ethnography - Alternative Research Methodology -- Ch. 3: Historical and Cultural Contexts of Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong -- Ch. 4: Investing in Social Capital? - Considering the Paradoxes of Agency in Social Exchange -- Ch. 5: 'Getting the Social Relations Right'? - Understanding Institutional Plurality and Dynamics -- Ch. 6: Rethinking Authority and Power in the Structures of Relations -- Ch. 7: Conclusions and Policy Implications -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Annex 1 -- Annex 2: List of Tables -- Index.