Work in Transition: Cultural Capital and Highly Skilled Migrants'' Passages into the Labour Market
ISBN: 9781442668737
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Foreign workers; Immigrants -- Employment; Skilled labor; Social mobility; Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects;

Work in Transition shows how migrants develop their cultural capital in order to enter the workforce, as well as how failure to leverage that capital can lead to permanent exclusion from professional positions.


Nohl Arnd-Michael :

Arnd-Michael Nohl is a professor of Education Science at Helmut-Schmidt-University.
Schittenhelm Karin :

Karin Schittenhelm is a professor of Sociology at the University of Siegen.
Schmidtke Oliver :

Oliver Schmidtke is a professor in the Departments of Political Science and History and Director of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria.
Weiss Anja :

Anja Weiss is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

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