Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK

In this paper we focus on highly skilled migration from Zimbabwe to the UK, exploring these migrants’ social capital sources/structures and content. In doing so we pay attention to routes of migration and how they shape migrants’ networking capabilities and patterns. We further take a Bourdieusian p...

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Main Authors: Thondhlana, Juliet, Madziva, Roda, McGrath, Simon
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Published: Wiley 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32320/
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McGrath, Simon
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description In this paper we focus on highly skilled migration from Zimbabwe to the UK, exploring these migrants’ social capital sources/structures and content. In doing so we pay attention to routes of migration and how they shape migrants’ networking capabilities and patterns. We further take a Bourdieusian perspective and explore the intersection between social capital and cultural capital in the process of migrants’ negotiation of employment opportunities, giving closer attention to how the distinctive habitus associated with being highly skilled migrants from Zimbabwe shape migrants’ attitudes towards work. By exploring the interplay between external processes and internalised structures, we bring to the fore the multiple positioning of our participants, who we see not as simply depending on social networks, but as complex actors whose negotiation of employability in the UK is shaped by various factors including intersecting aspects of differentiation.
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spelling nottingham-323202020-05-04T17:46:45Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32320/ Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK Thondhlana, Juliet Madziva, Roda McGrath, Simon In this paper we focus on highly skilled migration from Zimbabwe to the UK, exploring these migrants’ social capital sources/structures and content. In doing so we pay attention to routes of migration and how they shape migrants’ networking capabilities and patterns. We further take a Bourdieusian perspective and explore the intersection between social capital and cultural capital in the process of migrants’ negotiation of employment opportunities, giving closer attention to how the distinctive habitus associated with being highly skilled migrants from Zimbabwe shape migrants’ attitudes towards work. By exploring the interplay between external processes and internalised structures, we bring to the fore the multiple positioning of our participants, who we see not as simply depending on social networks, but as complex actors whose negotiation of employability in the UK is shaped by various factors including intersecting aspects of differentiation. Wiley 2016-04-14 Article PeerReviewed Thondhlana, Juliet, Madziva, Roda and McGrath, Simon (2016) Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK. Sociological Review, 64 (3). pp. 575-592. ISSN 1467-954X Cultural Capital Habitus Highly Skilled Migrants Social Capital Social Networks http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-954X.12373/abstract doi:10.1111/1467-954X.12373 doi:10.1111/1467-954X.12373
spellingShingle Cultural Capital
Habitus
Highly Skilled Migrants
Social Capital
Social Networks
Thondhlana, Juliet
Madziva, Roda
McGrath, Simon
Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK
title Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK
title_full Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK
title_fullStr Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK
title_full_unstemmed Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK
title_short Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK
title_sort negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the uk
topic Cultural Capital
Habitus
Highly Skilled Migrants
Social Capital
Social Networks
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