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Women migrant workers in the UK: social capital, well‐being and integration
Author(s) -
Giusta Marina Della,
Kambhampati Uma
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.1316
Subject(s) - immigration , social capital , context (archaeology) , government (linguistics) , focus group , local government , sample (material) , economic growth , sociology , demographic economics , social work , political science , economics , geography , public administration , social science , law , linguistics , philosophy , chemistry , archaeology , chromatography , anthropology
This paper addresses the role of social connections in helping women migrants to settle in the UK. We focus on micro‐ and macro‐social capital with the former including local social networks and organisation (comprising immediate family, other immigrants, neighbours, churches) and the latter including experience with local government supporting institutions. In this context, we present results from a pilot study based on data collected amongst women immigrant workers in the care sector in the UK. A majority of respondents in our sample come from Africa and Asia and 62 per cent arrived without family. Our results indicate that while education decreases the extent to which women in our sample feel settled, contact with the local community as well as living within an immigrant community helped the women to feel settled. Finally, their experience with services like housing and immigration proved very significant. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.