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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
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations
Series ICAS publications series. Monographs ; 2
ICAS publications series. Monographs ; 2
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
Analysis Popular science
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Infrastructure (Economics) -- China -- Citizen participation
Poor -- China -- Social conditions
Migrant labor -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions
Society and social sciences.
Mathematics and science.
Science: general issues.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Economic policy
Infrastructure (Economics) -- Citizen participation
Migrant labor -- Social conditions
Poor -- Social conditions
Social conditions
Einwanderer
Alltag
SUBJECT China -- Social conditions -- 1949- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000602
China -- Economic policy -- 1949- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024023
Subject China
China -- Hong Kong
Hongkong
Chinesen.
Form Electronic book
Author International Convention of Asia Scholars
ISBN 9789048501052
9048501059
Other Titles Everyday lives of poor mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong