Muslim Uyghur Students in a Chinese Boarding School: Social Recapitalization as a Response to Ethnic Integration

Muslim Uyghur Students in a Chinese Boarding School: Social Recapitalization as a Response to Ethnic Integration

Through in-depth interviews, the author finds that Uyghur students are able to develop social capital in the new destination through networking with minority peers and "influential others" such as teachers of Han ethnics, manifesting their acceptance in the structural aspects of ethnic int...

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Veröffentlicht in:Contemporary sociology (Washington) 2009, Vol.38 (5), p.483-483
Hauptverfasser: Billinger, Anthony, Densberger, Kathryn, Dorius, Cassandra, Fledderjohan, Jasmine, Hall, Matt, James, Spencer, Light, Michael, Maull, Amanda, Meyer, G W F, Rafail, Pat, Rosell, Laura, Simon, Richard M, Wang, Xiaozhou, Wiernik, Craig
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Boarding schools
Briefly Noted
Minority & ethnic groups
Minority students
Nonfiction
Social capital
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Zusammenfassung:Through in-depth interviews, the author finds that Uyghur students are able to develop social capital in the new destination through networking with minority peers and "influential others" such as teachers of Han ethnics, manifesting their acceptance in the structural aspects of ethnic integration.
ISSN:0094-3061
1939-8638