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.” (170-171).
Drawing on lectures and readings by Massey et al, Hernandez-Leon, and Hagan, this essay should:
(a) Define social capital;
(b) Discuss the factors that might promote or constrain the emergence of social capital;
(c) Explain how and why the migrants’ social capital helps them fill structural holes in the workplace;
(d) Discuss the relationship between social capital and other migration- related institutions; and (e ) Discuss the migration industry and explain how it differs from other forms of informal or formal migration problem-solving.
