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This book explores the intangible human capital which international
migrants bring with them and develop further when working and
living abroad, drawing on case studies and original data from
Central Europe and Mexico-USA. The book demonstrates that despite
the fact that many international migrants might be working in their
destination countries at a level below their formal qualifications,
or else might be formally unskilled, but with practical
non-validated skills, they can still acquire and enhance
considerable informal human capital in the form of mind skills,
soft skills, maker skills and life skills. The book analyses how
migration-impacted informal human capital (MigCap) is acquired and
enhanced as a result of international migration and what the
opportunity and constraint structures are for their acquisitions
and transfers. Adopting a comprehensive perspective, the book
investigates how migration-impacted informal human capital is
transferred by migrants between localities and areas of human
actions and activities. Moving beyond the focus on migration as a
source of economic capital, this book demonstrates that learning by
observing, communicating and doing with others, embedded in social
relations can facilitate the enhancement of intangible human
capital among both skilled and unskilled migrants. It will be of
interest to researchers of migration, sociology, economics,
management and business studies, and other related social science
disciplines.
This book offers a unique and innovative way of looking at the
paradoxical consequences of human mobility. Based on a three-year
transnational multi-sited longitudinal research project, it
demonstrates that not all migrants acquire, transfer and implement
social remittances in the same way. Whilst the circulation of
ideas, norms and practices is an important aspect of modernity,
acts of resistance, imitation and innovation mean that whilst some
migrants become ordinary agents of social change in their local
microcosms, others may contest that change. By putting this
individual agency centre stage, the authors trace how social
remittances are evolving, and the ambiguous impact that they have
on society. This thought-provoking work will appeal to students and
scholars of sociology, geography and anthropology.
This book offers a unique and innovative way of looking at the
paradoxical consequences of human mobility. Based on a three-year
transnational multi-sited longitudinal research project, it
demonstrates that not all migrants acquire, transfer and implement
social remittances in the same way. Whilst the circulation of
ideas, norms and practices is an important aspect of modernity,
acts of resistance, imitation and innovation mean that whilst some
migrants become ordinary agents of social change in their local
microcosms, others may contest that change. By putting this
individual agency centre stage, the authors trace how social
remittances are evolving, and the ambiguous impact that they have
on society. This thought-provoking work will appeal to students and
scholars of sociology, geography and anthropology.
The author examines social mobility in the enlarged EU by analysing
the work sequences of 1865 movers and stayers in Poland. Using
indicators of upward and downward social mobility, she explores the
role of migration in careers. Her research shows that migration
adds dynamism to work paths and contributes to the improvement of
people's working lives. It also suggests that agency and
reflexivity guide the acquisition of tacit skills during migration,
resulting in various patterns of social mobility.
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