• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Coping on Women’s Backs : Social Capital-Vulnerability Links through a Gender Lens : Social Capital-Vulnerability Links through a Gender Lens
  • Contributor: Thieme, Susan; Siegmann, Karin Astrid
  • imprint: SAGE Publications, 2010
  • Published in: Current Sociology
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1177/0011392110372732
  • ISSN: 0011-3921; 1461-7064
  • Keywords: Sociology and Political Science
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  • Description: <jats:p>This article aims to conceptualize the gendered interface between social capital and vulnerability. It emphasizes Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of social capital embedded in his Theory of Practice as a fruitful analytical device for this intersection. The authors’ conceptual thoughts are based on a review of the literature on the role of migration-related social networks from mainly diverse Asian contexts and empirical fieldwork in South and Central Asia.</jats:p>