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Author Wong, Sam.

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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Online ebook. Open Access via JSTOR.
Online ebook via EBSCO. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff.

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Description 1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome.
Description text file
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.
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Language English.
Subject Infrastructure (Economics) -- China -- Citizen participation.
Infrastructure (Economics)
China.
Political participation.
Poor -- China -- Social conditions.
Poor.
Social conditions.
Migrant labor -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions.
Migrant labor.
China -- Hong Kong.
China -- Social conditions -- 1949-
Chronological Term 1949-
Subject China -- Economic policy -- 1949-
Economic policy.
Chronological Term Since 1949
Indexed Term Popular science
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
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 book)
9048501059 (electronic book)
9789053560341
9053560343

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