Write an essay on immigration and social capital

Sociololgy: Comparative Immigration

Prompt:

Please answer the following question in an essay of at least 5, typed pages (1,000-1,500 words). Make sure to provide proper documentation (footnotes, quotes, examples) for your answers. The strongest answer is one that draws on the broadest range of relevant readings and lectures.

In Return to Aztlan, the authors write that poor immigrants “may be poor in financial resources, but they are wealthy in social capital, which they can readily convert into jobs and earnings in the United States.” (171). Drawing on lectures and readings by Massey et al, Hernandez-Leon, Palmgren, Hagan, and Arar, this essay should:

(a) define social capital

(b) discuss the factors that might promote or constrain the emergence of social capital

(d) discuss the relationship between social capital and other migration-related institutions, whether those that emerge out of the process of migration (like hometown associations) or are related to refugee resettlement

Rules:

Double spaced
12 point font (Times New Roman)
5-6 pages typed (1,000 – 1,500 words)
MLA format
Include work cited page
Cite all sources
At least 5 sources (pick from readings and lectures listed below only)

Reminder regarding plagiarism:

Taking exact wordings from lecture slides and advancing them as your own thoughts constitutes a form of plagiarism. You may, of course, rephrase information taken from lecture slides; you may also cite or quote from lecture slides, all the while appropriately referencing the lecture and/or date that the lecture was presented. Exact quotations should be limited in number; you must express ideas in your own words.

All readings and lectures:

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