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

Exploring 'unseen' social capital in community participation [electronic resource] : everyday lives of poor mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong / Sam Wong.

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"This book argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is less likely to succeed because the mainstream neoinstitutional approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. This inadequacy calls for a re-assessment of human motivations, institutional dyna...

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Main Author: Wong, Sam
Corporate Author: International Convention of Asia Scholars
Other title:Everyday lives of poor mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong.
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2007.
Series:ICAS publications series. Monographs ; 2.
Subjects:
Infrastructure (Economics) > China > Citizen participation.
Poor > China > Social conditions.
Migrant labor > China > Hong Kong > Social conditions.
Economic policy.
Infrastructure (Economics) > Citizen participation.
Migrant labor > Social conditions.
Poor > Social conditions.
Social conditions.
China > Social conditions > 1949-
China > Economic policy > 1949-
China.
China > Hong Kong.
Table of Contents:
  • Building a 'Pro-Poor' Social Capital Framework
  • Ethnography
  • Alternative Research Methodology
  • Historical and Cultural Contexts of Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
  • Investing in Social Capital?
  • Considering the Paradoxes of Agency in Social Exchange
  • 'Getting the Social Relations Right'?
  • Understanding Institutional Plurality and Dynamics
  • Rethinking Authority and Power in the Structures of Relations
  • Conclusions and Policy Implications.

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