Between professions and countries
Ilana Nussbaum Bitran
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Ilana Nussbaum Bitran, Between professions and countries (2020), Logos Verlag, Berlin, ISBN: 9783832586461
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Description / Abstract
The migration of highly skilled individuals brings together two important and well-developed institutional systems: on the one hand, the organization of professions and, on the other hand, the state and its migration and integration regime. Therefore, professional migrants move between two levels of regulation. The first one applies to their specific professional group and regulates the acquisition of knowledge as well as the participation in the labor market. The second one controls the access to and settlement in a given country. Taking the examples of medicine and the information technologies (IT) in Germany and Chile, the present research asks how different institutional settings shape the cultural capital negotiation strategies of highly skilled Latin American migrants. Using Bourdieuâs relational theory and especially his concepts of field and capital, this book seeks to understand professions as fields and to follow the trajectories of highly skilled Latin American migrants within two transnational professional fields.
Using a reconstructive praxeological approach, this book presents three typologies, showing how the interaction between (transnational) professional fields and national regulations creates different possibilities for highly skilled migrants to negotiate their capital and the strategies they develop to reach a good position in their host countryâs labor market.
Using a reconstructive praxeological approach, this book presents three typologies, showing how the interaction between (transnational) professional fields and national regulations creates different possibilities for highly skilled migrants to negotiate their capital and the strategies they develop to reach a good position in their host countryâs labor market.
Table of content
- BEGINN
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 2 BEYOND THE NATION-STATE. THE SOCIOLOGY OF PROFESSIONS AND BOURDIEU REVISITED
- 2.1.1 Functionalist approach
- 2.2 Bourdieu�s field theory
- 2.3 Revisiting the concepts of profession and field
- CHAPTER 3 KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS ON THE MOVE
- 3.1 Highly skilled migrants
- 3.2 Institutional contexts and rules of professional fields
- 3.3 Immigration laws and degree recognition processes as analytical framework to study highly skilled migration
- CHAPTER 4 METHODS
- 4.1 Mannheim�s problem of generations
- 4.2 Documentary method
- 4.3 Data collection methods - Biographical narrative interviews
- 4.4 Fieldwork
- 4.5 Two methodological remarks
- CHAPTER 5 THE LOGICS OF CULTURAL CAPITAL RECOGNITION
- 5.1 Technical logic of cultural capital recognition
- 5.2 Social logic of cultural capital recognition
- 5.3 Professional logic of cultural capital recognition
- 5.4 State-legal logic of cultural capital recognition
- 5.5 Knowledge and the logics of recognition
- CHAPTER 6 HIGHLY SKILLED MIGRANTS� TRAJECTORIES IN GERMANY AND CHILE
- 6.1 Stages of (progressive) access to and settling into the labor market
- 6.2 Matching legal context with labor market logics
- CHAPTER 7 THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN COUNTRY AND FIELD REGULATIONS
- 7.1 The perception of country and field combined
- 7.2 The scope of action in the negotiation of cultural capital
- CHAPTER 8 CONCLUSIONS
- 8.1 Institutional contexts and professional fields
- 8.2 A multidimensional typology: institutional contexts, professional fields and time
- 8.3 The development of cultural capital negotiation strategies
- 8.4 The research process - an epilogue
- REFERENCES
- APPENDIX 1 INTERVIEW PARTNERS� SHORT BIOS
- APPENDIX 2 RULES OF TRANSCRIPTION
- APPENDIX 3 ORIGINAL SPANISH QUOTES