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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Detailed contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Building a ‘Pro-Poor’ Social Capital Framework
- 2 Ethnography – Alternative Research Methodology
- 3 Historical and Cultural Contexts of Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
- 4 Investing in Social Capital? – Considering the Paradoxes of Agency in Social Exchange
- 5 ‘Getting the Social Relations Right’? – Understanding Institutional Plurality and Dynamics
- 6 Rethinking Authority and Power in the Structures of Relations
- 7 Conclusions and Policy Implications
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Annex 1
- Annex 2
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Detailed contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Building a ‘Pro-Poor’ Social Capital Framework
- 2 Ethnography – Alternative Research Methodology
- 3 Historical and Cultural Contexts of Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
- 4 Investing in Social Capital? – Considering the Paradoxes of Agency in Social Exchange
- 5 ‘Getting the Social Relations Right’? – Understanding Institutional Plurality and Dynamics
- 6 Rethinking Authority and Power in the Structures of Relations
- 7 Conclusions and Policy Implications
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Annex 1
- Annex 2
- Index
Summary
List of Tables
Table 2.1 Comparing and contrasting three epistemological standpoints of ethnography
Table 2.2 Comparing the policies of the three NGO groups in Hong Kong
Table 2.3 Comparing three clan associations in Hong Kong
Table 2.4 The identification of eight different key players in migrant communities
Table 3.1 Migrants switching professions before and after their arrivals in Hong Kong
Table 3.2 The length of separation between married couples under the one-way permit scheme
Table 3.3 Education attainment between migrants and the population as a whole
Table 3.4 Major sources of family incomes of new arrivals from 1998 to 2002
Table 3.5 Comparing perception of social status between local and migrant women
Table 4.1 The use of ties in different life events affecting Sandy
Table 4.2 Mr. and Mrs. Ma's engagement in social exchange and associated cost in year 2002
Table 5.1 Miss Cheung's involvement in multiple institutions in her daily life
Table 6.1 Miss Lin's complexity of role expectations
Table 6.2 Collective events and features in clan associations
Table 7.1 Social capital building among Chinese migrants in Hong Kong
Table 7.2 Comparing and contrasting ‘seen’ and ‘unseen’ social capital
Table 7.3 Illustrating ‘unseen’ social capital by everyday lives of mainland Chinese migrants
List of Figures
Figure 1.1 Social capital and the second-generation collective-action model
Figure 3.1 The population change in Hong Kong
Figure 3.2 Percentage distribution of population by place of birth in Hong Kong, 1961-1991
Figure 4.1 Sandy, 40 years old, married with two children, arriving in Hong Kong in 1996
Figure 5.1 A simplified version of Williamson's economic analysis of Institution
List of Boxes
Box 1.1 Ostrom's Design Principles in building organisational social capital within groups
Box 3.1 Ah Ming (Ah Ching's daughter), 9 years old, born in China
Box 4.1 Miss Li, 20 years old, arriving in Hong Kong in 2001
Box 4.2 Ah Ching, aged 38, arriving in Hong Kong in 1999
Box 4.3 Ah Ming (Ah Ching's daughter), 9 years old, born in China
Box 4.4 Childcare advertisements in community currency newsletters
Box 4.5 Mr. Au, 60 years old, unemployed steel worker
Box 5.1 Using sanctions in the female migrant mutual-help group
Box 5.2 Choosing leaders in the female migrant mutual-help group
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- Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community ParticipationEveryday Lives of Poor Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong, pp. 213 - 216Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2007