Topic: Essay on Social Capital
Instruction:
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; (c) explain how and why the development of social capital facilitates migration;
and (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.
No. of Pages: 5
