Social Capital as Patterns of Connections. A Review of Bankston’s "Immigrant Networks and Social Capital"

Sabatini, Fabio (2015): Social Capital as Patterns of Connections. A Review of Bankston’s "Immigrant Networks and Social Capital". Forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Literature , Vol. 53, No. 2 (June 2015)

Abstract

Review of Immigrant Networks and Social Capital by Carl L. Bankston III. Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Social capital; social networks; social ties; immigration; United States.
• Subjects: A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics; A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics > A10 - General; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers; Y - Miscellaneous Categories > Y3 - Book Reviews (unclassified); Z - Other Special Topics > Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology > Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification

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