Description: Researchers have increasingly drawn on the concept of social capital and the role of social networks to understand the dynamics of immigrant experiences. This timely book draws on a broad range of examples from major immigrant groups to take network-based social capital theory out of the realm of abstraction and reveal the insights it offers.
Review Quotes: Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015
"Provides an important service in presenting in a systematic and clear way the sociological literature on social networks and clarifying the nature of the concept of social capital."
Journal of Economic Literature
''Until now, sociologists have needed a �go-to� volume on immigrant social networks that covers both migration itself and adaptation in the destination country. This is it. Carl Bankston has not only synthesized the research on networks and social capital across many dimensions, he puts them in a global context, extends the theoretical approach, and illustrates it with examples from four U.S. immigrant groups.''
Susan K. Brown, University of California, Irvine
"Carl Bankston offers a comprehensive, clear and compelling view of how social capital and immigrant networks operate and how they relate to pre- and post-migration conditions. Vital for students and scholars of immigration, this book illuminates how workers and other immigrants residing in the United States make their way in a global economy shaped by relationships between individuals and institutions."
Audrey Singer, Brookings Institution