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

Publication Info.	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2007]
	©2007

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Description	1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations.
Series	ICAS publications series. Monographs ; 2
	ICAS publications series. Monographs ; 2.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary	"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 dynamics and structural complexity in social capital building. Using ethnographic and participatory methods, this book calls for an exploration of 'unseen' social capital which is intended to challenge the mainstream understanding of 'seen' social capital. As such this book is useful to policy makers and practitioners"--Publisher's description.
Note	Print version record.
Language	English.
Subject	Economic policy. (OCoLC)fst00902025
	Alltag.
	Society and social sciences.
Indexed Term	Popular science
Subject	Migrant labor -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions.
	China -- Economic policy -- 1949-
	China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
	Einwanderer.
Chronological Term	Since 1949
Subject	Science: general issues.
	Mathematics and science.
	Hongkong.
	Migrant labor -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01020737
	China -- Hong Kong. (OCoLC)fst01260796
	Chinesen.
	Poor -- China -- Social conditions.
Local Subject	Poor people -- China -- Social conditions.
Subject	China -- Social conditions -- 1949-
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Infrastructure (Economics) -- China -- Citizen participation.
	Poor -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01071151
	Infrastructure (Economics) -- Citizen participation. (OCoLC)fst00973277
Added Author	International Convention of Asia Scholars.
Added Title	Everyday lives of poor mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong
Other Form:	Print version: Wong, Sam. Exploring 'unseen' social capital in community participation. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2007 9789053560341 9053560343 (OCoLC)190825614
ISBN	9789048501052 (electronic bk.)
	9048501059 (electronic bk.)
	9789053560341
	9053560343

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