Search Results - "ethnic capital"

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Negotiating the workplace: second-generation Asian American professionals' early experiences

by Huang, Tiffany J Published in Journal of ethnic and migration studies (//)

“...Research on Asian American educational attainment suggests that a combination of immigrant hyper-selectivity and ethnic capital enables second-generation Asian...”

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Lessons from an "old" second generation in the US: fresh evidence on assimilation theories

by Cheung, Sin Yi Published in Ethnic and racial studies (03.10.2019)

“...Taking a multilevel approach and accounting for the complex interaction between sending and host countries, Origins and Destinations: The Making of the Second...”

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Hyper-Selectivity and the Remaking of Culture: Understanding the Asian American Achievement Paradox

by Zhou, Min Lee, Jennifer
edited by Cheah, Charissa S. L Kim, Bryan S. K Huynh, Virginia W Wang, Yijie Kiang, Lisa Yoshikawa, Hirokazu
Published in Asian American journal of psychology (01.03.2017)

“...Asian Americans are frequently deployed as racial mascots by pundits who fixate on their extraordinary levels of educational attainment. They comprise only...”

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Explaining Educational Achievement and Career Aspirations among Young British Pakistanis: Mobilizing 'Ethnic Capital'?

by Bindi Shah Claire Dwyer Tariq Modood Published in Sociology (Oxford) (01.12.2010)

“...This article offers an explanation for recent trends that indicate higher numbers of young British Pakistani men and women pursue higher education compared to...”

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'Ethnic capital' and 'flexible citizenship' in unfavourable legal contexts: stepwise migration of the Korean Chinese within and beyond northeast Asia

by Kim, Jaeeun Published in Journal of ethnic and migration studies (26.04.2019)

“...This article examines how migrants mobilise ethnicity for migration purposes by drawing on the migration trajectories of ethnic Korean migrants from northeast...”

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Who benefits from ethnic capital? Group norms, social-class and education among Armenian-Americans in Los Angeles

by Khachikian, Oshin Published in Ethnic and racial studies (27.05.2020)

“...Sociologists show that the high levels of college-educated adults found in specific immigrant communities become a social resource, called ethnic capital,...”

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Violent conflict and ethnicity in the Congo: beyond materialism, primordialism and symbolism

by Hoffmann, Kasper Vlassenroot, Koen Carayannis, Tatiana Muzalia, Godefroid Published in Conflict, security & development (02.09.2020)

“...In this paper, we investigate the nexus between ethnicity and violent conflict in the Congo. We make three interlocking arguments. First, we argue that...”

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Taking religions seriously in the sociology of education: going beyond the secular paradigm

by Grace, Gerald Published in British journal of sociology of education (17.08.2020)

“...Valuable developments in the Sociology of Education over the last 40 years have involved the widening and deepening of analytical perspectives to include not...”

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Beyond the average: Ethnic capital heterogeneity and intergenerational transmission of education

by Chakraborty, Tanika Schüller, Simone Zimmermann, Klaus F Published in Journal of economic behavior & organization (01.07.2019)

“...•We estimate the effect of ethnic capital on human capital investment decisions.•We exploit a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany.•Children of...”

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'Islamic Capital' and Family Life: The Role of Islam in Parenting

by Michela Franceschelli Margaret O'Brien Published in Sociology (Oxford) (01.12.2014)

“...Much sociological research using Bourdieu's theory to analyse intergenerational reproduction tends to focus on the educational rather than the familial aspect...”

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Professionals made in Germany: Employing a Turkish migration background in high-status positions

by Konyali, Ali Crul, Maurice
2017

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The transnational phase of Chinese organisational development in Australia

by Shen, Jingjing Published in Journal of ethnic and migration studies (25.09.2016)

“...This article aims to contextualise the new phase of Chinese organisational development in Australia in the academic tradition of transnationalism, explore the...”

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Ethnic Minority Students' Career Expectations in Prospective Professions: Navigating between Ambitions and Discrimination

by Bente Abrahamsen Ida Drange Published in Sociology (Oxford) (01.04.2015)

“...This study sheds light on how ethnic minority students in Norway seek to navigate occupational opportunities after graduating from professional bachelor...”

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Ethnic Capital and Assimilation to the Great Australian (Homeownership) Dream: the early housing experience of Australia's skilled immigrants

by Forrest, James Johnston, Ron Poulsen, Michael Published in Australian geographer (03.04.2014)

“...We use the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, 2005-2006, to examine the housing tenure experience of skilled immigrants to Australia 6 and 18...”

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Ethnic minority students' career expectations in prospective professions: Navigating between ambitions and discrimination

by Abrahamsen, Bente Drange, Ida
14.08.2014

“...This study sheds light on how ethnic minority students in Norway seek to navigate occupational opportunities after graduating from professional bachelor...”

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Proficiency in English, linguistic shift and ethnic capital: an intergenerational analysis of non-English speaking background immigrant groups in Sydney, Australia

by Forrest, James Dandy, Justine Published in Journal of multilingual and multicultural development (07.02.2018)

“...Much is known about immigrants' majority language proficiency in the first (immigrant) generation. Less is understood of differences in linguistic shift...”

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"I want them to have a good education" : The "New Irish" parents and the primary school system

07.02.2020

“...Just over one in 10 primary school age children in Ireland are first-generation immigrants (Department of Education and Skills [DES] 2018a). An even larger...”

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Ethnic externalities in education and second-generation immigrants

by Yaman, Firat Published in Applied economics (02.12.2014)

“...I analyse the role of ethnic and native human capital - defined, respectively, as the average years of schooling of ethnic groups and of natives within a...”

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Constrained desires: The romantic partner preferences of college-educated Latinas

by Muro, Jazmín A Martinez, Lisa M Published in Latino studies (01.06.2016)

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Residence vs. Ancestry in Acquisition of Spanish Citizenship: A Netnography Approach

by Durand Arp Nissen, Jorge Mateos, Pablo Published in Migraciones internacionales (2012)

“...Access to a nationality from a European Union (EU) country has become a key migration strategy for people from outside the EU and their families. This paper...”

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