Enabling and constraining aspects of social capital in migrant families: Ethnicity, gender and generation

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 816-831

  Zontini, Elisabetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotions; Gender; Generation; Individualization; Migrant families; Networks; Social capital

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; GENDER; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; INDIVIDUALISM; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL NETWORK; YOUNG POPULATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77950937286     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: 14664356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01419870903254661     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. ANTHIAS, F. 2007 'Ethnic ties: social capital and the question of mobilisability', The Sociological Review, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 788-805
2. ANTHIAS, F. and YUVAL-DAVIS, N. 1992 Racialised Boundaries: Race, Nation, Gender, Colour, and Class and the Anti-Racists Struggle, London: Routledge
3. BALDASSAR, L. 2001 Visits Home: Migration Experiences between Italy and Australia, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press
4. BAUMAN, Z. 2003 Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds, Cambridge: Polity Press
5. BECK, U. and BECK-GERNSHEIM, E. 2002 Individualisation, London: Sage
6. BOURDIEU, P. 1997 'The forms of capital', In: A. H. Halsey, H. Lauder, P. Brown and A.S. Wells (eds), Education: Culture, Economy, Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 46-58
7. BRYCESON, D and VOURELA 2002 The Transnational Family: New European Frontiers and Global Networks, Oxford: Berg
8. CHARLES, N., AULL DAVIES, C. and HARRIS, C. 2008 Families in Transition. Social Change, Family Formation and Kin Relationships, Bristol, UK: Policy Press
9. CHRISTOU, A. 2006 'Deciphering diaspora translating transnationalism: family dynamics, identity constructions and the legacy of "home" in second-generation GreekAmerican return migration', Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 1040-1056
10. COLEMAN, J. S. 1990 Foundations of Social Theory, London: Harvard University Press
11. DI LEONARDO, M. 1984 The Varieties of Ethnic Experience. Kinship, Class, and Gender among California Italian-Americans, Ithaca: Cornell University Press
12. DI LEONARDO, M. 1992 'The female world of cards and holidays: women, families and the work of kinship', in B. Thorne with M. Yalom (eds), Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions, Boston, MA: Northern University Press, pp. 246-261
13. EDWARDS, R. and GILLIES, V. 2005 'Resources in Parenting: Access to Capitals Project Report', Working Article, no. 14, Families & Social Capital ESRC Research Group, London: London South Bank University
14. EVERGETI, V. 2006 'Living and caring between two cultures: narratives of Greek women in Britain', Community Work and Family, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 347-66
15. EVERGETI, V. and ZONTINI, E. 2006 'Social capital, migration and transnational families: some critical reflections', Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 1025-39
16. FRANKLIN, J. 2007 'Social capital: between harmony and dissonance', Working Paper no. 22, Families & Social Capital ESRC Research Group, London: London South Bank University
17. GIDDENS, A. 1992 The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies, Stanford: Stanford University Press
18. GUPTA, A. and FERGUSON, J. 1992 'Beyond "culture": space, identity, and the politics of difference', Cultural Anthropology, vol. 7, pp. 222-37
19. KARNER, K. and PARKER, D. 2008 'Religion versus rubbish: deprivation and social capital in inner-city Birmingham', Social Compass, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 517-31
20. LEVITT, P. 2001 The Transnational Villages, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
21. MODOOD, T. 2004 'Capitals, ethnic identity and educational qualifications', Cultural Trends, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 87-105
22. MOLYNEAUX, M. 2001 'Social capital: a post transition concept? Questions of context and gender from Latin American perspective', in V. Morrow (ed.), An Appropriate Capitalisation? Questioning Social Capital, Research in Progress Series, Issue 1, Special Issue, Gender Institute, London School of Economics
23. OAKLEY, A. 1974 The Sociology of Housework, Oxford: Martin Robertson
24. PANAGAKOS, A. 2004 'Recycled odyssey: creating transnational families in the Greek diaspora', Global Networks, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 299-311
25. PARRENAS, R.S. 2001 Servants of Globalization. Women, Migration, and Domestic Work, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press
26. PARRENAS, R.S. 2005 Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes, Stanford University Press
27. PORTES, A. 1998 'Social capital: its origin and applications in modern sociology', Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 1-24
28. PORTES, A. and RUMBAUT, R. 2001 Legacies. The Story Of The Immigrant Second Generation, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
29. PORTES, A. and ZHOU, M. 1993 'The new second generation: segmented assimilation and its variants among post-1965 immigrant youth', Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 530, pp. 74-98
30. PUTNAM, R. 2000 Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival of American Community, New York: Simon & Schuster
31. REYNOLDS, T. and ZONTINI, E. 2006 'A comparative study of care and provision across Caribbean and Italian transnational families', Working Article, no. 16, Families & Social Capital ESRC Research Group, London: London South Bank University
32. SCIAMA, L. 2003 'A Venetian Island. Environment, History and Change in Burano, Oxford: Berghahn Books
33. SHAH, B. 2007 'Being young, female and Laotian: ethnicity as social capital at the intersection of gender, generation, "race" and age', Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 28-50
34. SKEGGS, B. 1997 Formations of Class and Gender, London: Sage
35. SMART, C. 2007 Personal Life, Cambridge: Polity Press
36. Wessendorf, S. 2007 "'Roots migrants": transnationalism and "return" among second- generation Italians in Switzerland', The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol.33 no. 7 pp. 1083-102
37. STURINO, F. 1980 'Family and kin cohesion among Southern Italian immigrants in Toronto' in K. Ishweran (ed.) Canadian Families: Ethnic Variatians, Toronto: McGraw Hill Ryerson
38. WILLIAMS, F. 2004 Rethinking Families, London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
39. ZHOU, M. 1992 Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press
40. ZHOU, M. and BANKSTON, C. 1994 'Social capital and the adaptation of the second generation: the case of Vietnamese Youth in New Orleans', International Migration Review, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 821-45
41. ZONTINI, E. 2002 'Family Formation and Gendered Migrations in Bologna and Barcelona. A Comparative Ethnographic Study', DPhil thesis, University of Sussex
42. ZONTINI, E. 2004a 'Immigrant women in Barcelona: coping with the consequences of transnational lives', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 1113-44
43. ZONTINI, E. 2004b 'Italian families and social capital: rituals and the provision of care in BritishItalian transnational families', Working Article, no. 6, Families & Social Capital ESRC Research Group, London: London South Bank University
44. ZONTINI, E. 2004c 'Deploying social capital in social research: reflections on ethnicity and other resources' in R. Edwards (ed.), Working Paper no. 10, Social Capital in the Field, Families & Social Capital ESRC Research Group, London: London South Bank University [ISBN 1- 8744418-46-2]
45. ZONTINI, E. 2006 'Italian families and social capital: care provision in a transnational world', Community, Work and Family, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 325-345
46. ZONTINI, E. 2007 'Continuities and change in transnational Italian families: the caring practices of second generation women', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 33, no. 7, pp. 1103-19
47. ZONTINI, E. 2008 'Dreaming of "home" and "belonging" in transnational families: generational views on "return"', Paper presented at the 10th EASA Biennial Conference in Ljubljana, 2630 August
48. ZONTINI, E. and REYNOLDS, T. 2007 'Ethnicity, families and social capital: caring relationships across Italian and Caribbean transnational families', International Review of Sociology, vol. 33, no. 7, pp. 1103-19