Description:
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.
Brief description:
Arnd-Michael Nohl is a professor of Education Science at Helmut-Schmidt-University.
Review Quotes:
"Work in Transition adds empirical depth and theoretical sophistication to the literature on cultural capital in a labour migration context."
--Harald Bauder, Director, Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement, Ryerson University"An original and serious advance on research in the field, Work in Transition will appeal both to those interested in the analysis of highly skilled transitions in general and to those particularly attracted by the comparative analysis."
--Eleonore Kofman, Professor of Gender, Migration, and Citizenship, School of Law, Middlesex University