Exploring 'unseen' social capital in community participation : everyday lives of poor mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong

Exploring 'unseen' social capital in community participation everyday lives of poor mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong

This volume argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is unlikely to succeed because its mainstream approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. The inadequacy of that assumption, Sam Wong argues, calls for a reassessment of human motivations, institu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wong, Sam (-)
Corporate Author: International Convention of Asia Scholars (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2007.
Amsterdam : [2007]
Edition:1st ed
Series:ICAS publications series. Monographs ; 2.
Subjects:
Infrastructure (Economics) > China > Citizen participation.
Poor > China > Social conditions.
Migrant labor > China > Hong Kong > Social conditions.
China > Social conditions > 1949-
China > Economic policy > 1949-
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427560106719
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Summary contents
  • Detailed contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 1. Building a ,Pro-Poor' Social Capital Framework
  • 2. Ethnography - Alternative Research Methodology
  • 3. Historical and Cultural Contexts of Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
  • 4. Investing in Social Capital? - Considering the Paradoxes of Agency in Social Exchange
  • 5. ,Getting the Social Relations Right'? - Understanding Institutional Plurality and Dynamics
  • 6. Rethinking Authority and Power in the Structures of Relations
  • 7. Conclusions and Policy Implications
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Annex 1
  • Annex 2
  • Index

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