Paradoxes of social capital : a multi-generational study of Moroccans in London

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    • Cherti, Myriam

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Paradoxes of social capital : a multi-generational study of Moroccans in London

Myriam Cherti

(IMISCOE dissertations)

Amsterdam University Press, c2008

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Description

Paradoxes of Social Capital critically examines the robustness of social capital theory as an analytical tool in explaining the various 'integration' patterns amongst Moroccans in London. The book also considers how structural factors impact on the ways in which Moroccans - across generations - sustain, access and use social capital at the levels of family, ethnic community, migrant associations and schools. Furthermore, this research elaborates on how social capital serves as an identity (re)source that is continuously negotiated and redefined through (in)active group (family, ethnic, religious and national) memberships. An original model of studying the second-generation processes of adaptation - viewed as 'transversal adaptation'- is also introduced, shifting the focus from predetermined 'integration' patterns to a circular and a longitudinal approach to 'integration', where new opportunities and constraints emerge, structured by the temporal flow of life trajectories.

Table of Contents

Table of contents - 8 Acknowledgements - 14 1. Introduction - 16 2. Theoretical overview - 24 3. Methodology - 58 4. Moroccan migration to Britain/London: a historical overview - 74 5. Social capital across two generations - 110 6. A meso-level analysis of social capital: Moroccan organisations in action - 150 7. Education, social capital and 'integration ' - 188 8. 'Integration': Which identifies? Whose social norms? - 232 9. Conclusions - 286 Notes - 298 Appendices - 302 Bibliography - 322

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  • NCID
    BA87719320
  • ISBN
    • 9789053560327
  • Country Code
    ne
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    [Amsterdam]
  • Pages/Volumes
    336 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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