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

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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
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley 2016
Subjects:	Cultural Capital Habitus Highly Skilled Migrants Social Capital Social Networks
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32320/

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