Author : Ilana Nussbaum Bitran
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN 13 : 383255193X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)
Book Synopsis Between professions and countries. Highly skilled Latin American migrants and the negotiation of cultural capital by : Ilana Nussbaum Bitran
Download or read book Between professions and countries. Highly skilled Latin American migrants and the negotiation of cultural capital written by Ilana Nussbaum Bitran and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The migration of highly skilled individuals brings together two important and well-developed institutional systems: on the one hand, the organization of professions and, on the other hand, the state and its migration and integration regime. Therefore, professional migrants move between two levels of regulation. The first one applies to their specific professional group and regulates the acquisition of knowledge as well as the participation in the labor market. The second one controls the access to and settlement in a given country. Taking the examples of medicine and the information technologies (IT) in Germany and Chile, the present research asks how different institutional settings shape the cultural capital negotiation strategies of highly skilled Latin American migrants. Using Bourdieu’s relational theory and especially his concepts of field and capital, this book seeks to understand professions as fields and to follow the trajectories of highly skilled Latin American migrants within two transnational professional fields. Using a reconstructive praxeological approach, this book presents three typologies, showing how the interaction between (transnational) professional fields and national regulations creates different possibilities for highly skilled migrants to negotiate their capital and the strategies they develop to reach a good position in their host country’s labor market.