TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wong,Sam
ED  - International Convention of Asia Scholars.
TI  - Exploring 'unseen' social capital in community participation: everyday lives of poor mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong 
T2  - ICAS publications series. Monographs
SN  - 9048501059
AV  - HC430.C3 W66 2007eb
U1  - 338.951 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Infrastructure (Economics)
KW  - China
KW  - Citizen participation
KW  - Migrant labor
KW  - Hong Kong
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Poor
KW  - Alltag
KW  - gnd
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Development
KW  - Business Development
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Economic Development
KW  - General
KW  - Government & Business
KW  - Structural Adjustment
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - fast
KW  - Einwanderer
KW  - Mathematics and science
KW  - bicssc
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Economic Policy
KW  - Science: general issues
KW  - Social Conditions
KW  - hilcc
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Society and social sciences
KW  - Sociology & Social History
KW  - 1949-
KW  - Chinesen
KW  - swd
KW  - Hongkong
KW  - Popular science
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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
UR  - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt45kfdv
ER  -