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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	JV6035 .F35 2000		AVAILABLE

Author	Faist, Thomas, 1959-
Title	The volume and dynamics of international migration and transnational social spaces / Thomas Faist.
OCLC	42463155
ISBN	0198293917
Publisher	Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Description	xiv, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Emigration and immigration.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-368) and index.
Contents	Lacunae of migration and post-migration research -- A review of dominant theories of international migration -- Situating the first puzzle: why so few migrants and why so many? -- The crucial meso link: social capital in social and symbolic ties -- The selective function of social capital: why are there so few migrants out of most places? -- The selective and diffusion functions of social capital: why so may migrants out of so few places? -- The bridging functions of social capital: transnational social spaces -- The adaptive functions of social capital: transnationalization and nation-state membership -- Elements for multi-level research on international migration and post-migration processes.

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