Revisiting Migrant Networks: Migrants and their Descendants in Labour Markets

Chapter 1. Introduction: Revisiting Networks: setting the conceptual and methodological scene.- Chapter 2. The direct and indirect role of migrants' networks in accessing diverse labour market sectors: an analysis of the weak/ strong ties continuum.- Chapter 3. Are "weak ties" really weak? Social capital reliance among second generation Turkish lawyers in Paris.- Chapter 4. Context matters: the varying roles of social ties for professional careers of immigrants' descendants.- Chapter 5. Access to employment of the second generations in France: unequal role of family and personal networks by Origins and Gender.- Chapter 6. Social capital, immigrants and their descendants - the case of Sweden.- Chapter 7.Activating Social Capital: Steep mobility of descendants of immigrants at the top of the corporate business sector.- Chapter 8. Reciprocity within Migrant Networks: The Role of Social Support for Employment.- Chapter 9. Networks in Migration Processes.- Chapter 10. Early-career academics' transnational moves: The gendered role of vertical social ties in obtaining academic positions abroad.- Chapter 11: Epilogue. Where Did Weak and Strong Ties Go Wrong?.