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Immigration And Social Capital In The Age Of Social Media
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Book Synopsis Immigration and Social Capital in the Age of Social Media by : Joong-Hwan Oh
Download or read book Immigration and Social Capital in the Age of Social Media written by Joong-Hwan Oh and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new age of social media, the role of online ethnic networks is as important as offline ethnic networks—families, friends, etc.—in helping immigrants adjust to their new country. This is something that has received very little attention in the academic field of international immigration which Oh hopes to rectify through this book. He focuses on the five American social institutions (immigration, welfare, education, housing, and finance) to explore this topic through the lens of married Korean-American women. In their online "MissyUSA" community, the largest Korean-American women's online community in North America, they share a wide range of information about the rules of each of these social institutions as they work together to navigate American society. Oh explores how the “MissyUSA” community creates two distinctive forms of social capital: social resources and social support. For some of its members (inquirers or information seekers), the “MissyUSA” community functions as an important source of their information (social resources) about the rules of the American social institutions. Likewise, it also functions as a network of social supporters (respondents or information providers) for those information seekers. Here, what makes this book a significant one is the fact that these social supporters are distinctively identified as instrumental guiders (information describers, expositors, confirmers, and advisors) and emotional supporters (companions, encouragers, and critics). By researching the lives of Korean-American women who are members of the "MissyUSA" community, Oh's book works to understand how a sub-set of the Korean-American community shares information about American institutions and uses the internet to do so.
Book Synopsis The Moderating Effect of Social Capital on Access to Formal Employment Among Mexican Immigrants by : Rebecca Jane Schell
Download or read book The Moderating Effect of Social Capital on Access to Formal Employment Among Mexican Immigrants written by Rebecca Jane Schell and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary aim of this research is to identify what role, if any, social capital plays in moderating the effect of immigration policy as it relates to employment. While there is a large amount of literature addressing the role of social capital in the process of obtaining employment, there has been very little attention given to the ways public policies may affect this process. Using publicly available data from the Mexican Migration Project, I created a data set that links measurements of human capital, social capital, employment on last migration (informal vs. formal sector), and immigration policy period for documented and undocumented Mexican migrant men. I find that for documented migrants immigration policies have no effect on access to formal employment whereas for undocumented migrants, immigration policies decrease access. Access to formal employment among undocumented migrants is moderated to some extent by social capital ties but only for the period immediately following the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) and for the most recent immigration policy period (2002-2011). These results confirm that social capital ties have some capacity to moderate the effect of public policy, specifically as it pertains to migrant labor market participation.
Book Synopsis Social Epidemiology by : Lisa F. Berkman
Download or read book Social Epidemiology written by Lisa F. Berkman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-09 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the important links between social conditions and health and begins to describe the processes through which these health inequalities may be generated. It reviews a range of methodologies that could be used by health researchers in this field and proposes innovative future research directions.
Book Synopsis Paradoxes of Multiculturalism by : Aleksandra Ålund
Download or read book Paradoxes of Multiculturalism written by Aleksandra Ålund and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Coming to America by : Heizal Wanjiku Njuguna
Download or read book Coming to America written by Heizal Wanjiku Njuguna and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research explored family-based immigration and the impact of social capital and social networks among the immigrants, after relocation and settlement into the U.S, as they worked towards becoming economically stable. Family-based immigration refers to the fundamental principle of family reunification emphasized in the U.S. immigration policy. The research is important as immigration has continued to be a social concern leading to discussions about having a comprehensive immigration policy reform in the U.S., that would include reduction of family-based immigrants who have no job-skill requirements to be admitted into the U.S. The research utilized intensive interviewing and gathered information from non-profit organizations based in the Seattle, WA area that serve different categories of immigrants including the family-based immigrants. Data collected from the organization’s websites, transcripts of recorded interviews and written notes indicated utilization of social capital and social networks as immigrants used resources provided by the non-profit organizations to become economically stable and self-sufficient after relocation into the United States.
Book Synopsis Social Capital Or Social Closure? by : Roger David Waldinger
Download or read book Social Capital Or Social Closure? written by Roger David Waldinger and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Advances in the Conceptualization of the Stress Process by : William R. Avison
Download or read book Advances in the Conceptualization of the Stress Process written by William R. Avison and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1981, Leonard Pearlin and his colleagues published an article that would ra- cally shift the sociological study of mental health from an emphasis on psychiatric disorder to a focus on social structure and its consequences for stress and psyc- logical distress. Pearlin et al. (1981) proposed a deceptively simple conceptual model that has now influenced sociological inquiry for almost three decades. With his characteristic penchant for reconsidering and elaborating his own ideas, Pearlin has revisited the stress process model periodically over the years (Pearlin 1989, 1999; Pearlin et al. 2005; Pearlin and Skaff 1996). One of the consequences of this continued theoretical elaboration of the stress process has been the development of a sociological model of stress that embraces the complexity of social life. Another consequence is that the stress process has continued to stimulate a host of empirical investigations in the sociology of mental health. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to suggest that the stress process paradigm has been primarily responsible for the growth and sustenance of sociological research on stress and mental health. Pearlin et al. (1981) described the core elements of the stress process in a brief paragraph: The process of social stress can be seen as combining three major conceptual domains: the sources of stress, the mediators of stress, and the manifestations of stress. Each of these extended domains subsumes a variety of subparts that have been intensively studied in recent years.
Author :National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher :National Academies Press ISBN 13 :0309482178 Total Pages :77 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (94 download)
Book Synopsis Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Download or read book Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1965 the foreign-born population of the United States has swelled from 9.6 million or 5 percent of the population to 45 million or 14 percent in 2015. Today, about one-quarter of the U.S. population consists of immigrants or the children of immigrants. Given the sizable representation of immigrants in the U.S. population, their health is a major influence on the health of the population as a whole. On average, immigrants are healthier than native-born Americans. Yet, immigrants also are subject to the systematic marginalization and discrimination that often lead to the creation of health disparities. To explore the link between immigration and health disparities, the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity held a workshop in Oakland, California, on November 28, 2017. This summary of that workshop highlights the presentations and discussions of the workshop.
Book Synopsis The Internet Connectivity by : Xiaoting Liu
Download or read book The Internet Connectivity written by Xiaoting Liu and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thesis examines the communication practices of 1.5 generation Chinese migrants across a variety of internet platforms. It takes the perspective of media studies to investigate the social capital acquisition and maintenance of young Chinese migrants after their migrating to New Zealand from China. The research data is derived from semi-structured in-depth interviews and user-generated online texts. The interview approach is employed to gain young Chinese migrants' perceptions of their lived experience which shapes their internet-based media preferences and use habits. The textual analysis of user-generated contents provides complementary evidence regarding young migrants' communicative activities on social network sites and microblogging, illustrating the maintenance of social capital in different forms. Research findings show that the Chinese migrant youth employ all available means to connect with strong-tie contacts, whereas they only participate in the group-wide internet platform (e.g. Facebook, Renren) for weak tie maintenance. Findings also suggest that within different media contexts, young Chinese migrants consciously share their personal information and participate in reciprocal interactions so as to maintain the social networks of different tie strength in home and host country. This research argues that the internet connectivity has profoundly transformed the way that Chinese migrant youth dominate their personal social networks across the geographical and ethnic boundaries. These young migrants gain more control over the attainment of social capital - network development and resources acquisition - with the facility of the internet. The acquired social capital is crucial to addressing migrant youth's sociocultural adaptation and their transition from adolescence to adulthood at the same time. This thesis contributes to both studies of Chinese migrant youth and social capital research by providing insight into the impacts of the internet. Empirically, homeland online communication media has been identified as an essential component making up Chinese migrant youth's media landscape. In the theoretical aspect, revising the existing literature on migrant use of specific types of internet platforms, this study helps deepen our understanding of how migrant youth simultaneously acquire social capital in the home and host country.
Book Synopsis Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age by : Dae Young Kim
Download or read book Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age written by Dae Young Kim and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age: The Korean Community in the Nation’s Capital examines the durable ties immigrants maintain with the home country and focuses in particular on their transnational cultural activities. In light of changing technologies, especially information and communication technologies (ICTs), which enable a faster, easier, and greater social and cultural engagement with the home country, this book argues that middle-class immigrants, such as Korean immigrants in the Washington-Baltimore region, sustain more regular connections with the homeland through cultural, rather than economic or political, transnational activities. Though not as conspicuous and contentious as other forms of transnational participation, cultural transnational activities may prove to be more lasting and also serve as a backbone for maintaining longer-lasting connections and identities with the home country.
Book Synopsis Digital Media, Online Activism, and Social Movements in Korea by : Hojeong Lee
Download or read book Digital Media, Online Activism, and Social Movements in Korea written by Hojeong Lee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Media, Online Activism, and Social Movements in Korea deepens the current understanding of online activism and its impacts on society by highlighting how various forms of social movements have been mobilized in Korea. Through exploring movements in Korea such as political participation based on SNS, the 2008 U.S. beef protests, and the 2016-2017 candlelight vigils, the contributors study the intersection of digital media platforms, current trends, and social, cultural, and political conditions within Korean society. Using a wide range of events and movements, this book analyzes how people have utilized the development of digital media to facilitate social movements and effect social change.
Book Synopsis Immigration and Population by : Stephanie A. Bohon
Download or read book Immigration and Population written by Stephanie A. Bohon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration is the primary cause of population change in developed countries and a major component of population change in many developing countries. This clear and perceptive text discusses how immigration impacts population size, composition, and distribution. The authors address major socio-political issues of immigration through the lens of demography, bringing demographic insights to bear on a number of pressing questions currently discussed in the media, such as: Does immigration stimulate the economy? Do immigrants put an excessive strain on health care systems? How does the racial and ethnic composition of immigrants challenge what it means to be American (or French or German)? By systematically exploring demographic topics such as fertility, health, education, and age and sex structures, the book provides students of immigration with a broader understanding of the impact of immigration on populations and offers new ways to think about immigration and society.
Book Synopsis Immigration and Entrepreneurship by : Ivan Hubert Light
Download or read book Immigration and Entrepreneurship written by Ivan Hubert Light and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many nations invite foreigners to work within their borders, but few welcome them. Those countries that do receive a torrent of immigrants create pressures that analysts expect to intensify as population growth and social unrest mount in the less developed countries of the world. Immigration and Entrepreneurship, now in paperback, offers a comparative analysis of worldwide immigration issues while focusing more specifically on the emerging influence of entrepreneurship as a potent factor in the economic and social integration of immigrants. In linking the common immigrant and settler experiences with the upsurge in self-employment, the contributors to this volume use California as their base of comparison. The state has both a huge and varied immigrant population and an entrepreneurial economy that has facilitated the formation of immigrant-owned firms. The Los Angeles riots of the nineties indicated the volatility of the mix. Aided by ethnic and familial networks, such firms have served as a route of economic advancement. Immigration and Entrepreneurship offers a comparative perspective unique in the literature of immigration by broaching the topic from both global and local perspectives. Whereas most studies examine the experience of a single group or groups in a particular destination economy, this volume emphasizes variations in the way different nations receive immigrants as causes of differences in immigrant behavior. Among the innovative themes discussed by a range of international scholars are the entrepreneurial efforts and tensions in the garment industry in Los Angeles, Paris, and Berlin; Koreans' enterprise and identities in Los Angeles and Japan; and U.S. immigration policies. The result is a genuinely global methodology. Ivan Light is professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of numerous articles and books on immigration, entrepreneurs, and urban sociology, including Ethnic Enterprise in America and Cities in World Perspective. Parminder Bhachu is professor of sociology at Clark University, a former Henry R. Luce professor of Cultural Identities and Global Processes, and was director of the Women's Studies program. She is the author of Twice Migrants and Dangerous Designs.
Book Synopsis Social Capital and Health by : Ichiro Kawachi
Download or read book Social Capital and Health written by Ichiro Kawachi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As interest in social capital has grown over the past decade—particularly in public health —so has the lack of consensus on exactly what it is and what makes it worth studying. Ichiro Kawachi, a widely respected leader in the field, and 21 contributors (including physicians, economists, and public health experts) discuss the theoretical origins of social capital, the strengths and limitations of current methodologies of measuring it, and salient examples of social capital concepts informing public health practice. Among the highlights: Measurement methods: survey, sociometric, ethnographic, experimental The relationship between social capital and physical health and health behaviors: smoking, substance abuse, physical activity, sexual activity Social capital and mental health: early findings Social capital and the aging community Social capital and disaster preparedness Social Capital and Health is certain to inspire a new generation of research on this topic, and will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in public health, health behavior, and social epidemiology.
Book Synopsis Newcomers and Global Migration in Contemporary South Korea by : Sung-Choon Park
Download or read book Newcomers and Global Migration in Contemporary South Korea written by Sung-Choon Park and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newcomers and Global Migration in Contemporary South Korea: Across National Boundaries examines the intersections of race, class, gender and inequalities in global migration in contemporary South Korea. The contributors explore South Korean migration policies and study diverse migrants living and working in South Korea as low-wage undocumented workers, refugees, Korean returnees, migrant women married to Korean men, and white professionals. The chapters in this collection make visible the differentiation and divergence of migration experiences due to race, class, gender, and place of origin, which are all also mediated by local inequalities in South Korea.
Book Synopsis Fictive Kinship and Acquaintance Networks as Sources of Support and Social Capital for Mexican Transmigrants in South Bend by : Erin Jelm
Download or read book Fictive Kinship and Acquaintance Networks as Sources of Support and Social Capital for Mexican Transmigrants in South Bend written by Erin Jelm and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in extensive literature review and primary ethnographic research in the Mexican immigrant community. Explores the role of social networks as essential sources of support and generators of social capital for Latino immigrants as they adjust to life in the United States. Whereas in U.S. "American" culture, kinship is defined as biogenetic, Latino culture is characteristically more flexible with its interpretation. "Family" includes extended relatives and even close friends who are incorporated into the tightly knit kin network via fictive kinship relationships.
Book Synopsis Economic Sociology by : Alejandro Portes
Download or read book Economic Sociology written by Alejandro Portes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sociological study of economic activity has witnessed a significant resurgence. Recent texts have chronicled economic sociology's nineteenth-century origins while pointing to the importance of context and power in economic life, yet the field lacks a clear understanding of the role that concepts at different levels of abstraction play in its organization. Economic Sociology fills this critical gap by surveying the current state of the field while advancing a framework for further theoretical development. Alejandro Portes examines economic sociology's principal assumptions, key explanatory concepts, and selected research sites. He argues that economic activity is embedded in social and cultural relations, but also that power and the unintended consequences of rational purposive action must be factored in when seeking to explain or predict economic behavior. Drawing upon a wealth of examples, Portes identifies three strategic sites of research--the informal economy, ethnic enclaves, and transnational communities--and he eschews grand narratives in favor of mid-range theories that help us understand specific kinds of social action. The book shows how the meta-assumptions of economic sociology can be transformed, under certain conditions, into testable propositions, and puts forward a theoretical agenda aimed at moving the field out of its present impasse.
