Influence of Integrative Social Capital on the Resilience of Immigrant Families: Accounts of Economic Class Immigrants in the Toronto Area
| Autor: | Marc Y. Valade |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Cultural Studies
Adaptive capacity Economic growth media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Immigration 0507 social and economic geography Social class Metropolitan area 0506 political science Anthropology Agency (sociology) 050602 political science & public administration Family resilience Sociology Psychological resilience 050703 geography Demography media_common Social capital |
| Zdroj: | Journal of International Migration and Integration. 22:103-121 |
| ISSN: | 1874-6365 1488-3473 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12134-019-00728-2 |
| Popis: | Family is central to understanding immigrants but its role in the migration experience is under studied. This article forays into the trajectories of economic-class immigrants interviewed in the Toronto metropolitan area. It attempts to unearth how families contributed to their settlement experience, on the one hand, and how local institutions and nascent social capital contributed to their resilience, on the other hand. Findings highlight how integrative agents of local institutions played a significant role in helping interviewees acquire self-confidence and agency in their new reality. This process contributed to strengthening some of their families’ adaptive capacity. As a result, these families could fulfill their own support function more effectively towards their members. An immigrant family resilience framework is then proposed, combining elements of nascent social capital of newcomers and family adaptive systems (Henry et al. 2015). The article concludes on why family matters in the immigration process and enounces significant policy implications. |
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