Date of Award
2022
Publisher
North Dakota State University
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Awarded
Master of Science (MS)
Program
Sociology and Anthropology
Department
Sociology and Anthropology
College
Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Faculty Advisor
Emanuelson, Pamela
Description
The paper investigates if culture mediates the relation between immigrants’ social capital and the likelihood of employment in a host country. It applies Social Capital Theory to predict potential effects of culture and then, conducts statistical tests on data for two distinct periods in United States history. Results are consistent with prior findings that social capital enhances the likelihood of employment for immigrants. In general, culture did not affect the efficacy of social capital on increasing the likelihood of immigrant employment, though there was an effect of culture on the quantity of bridging capital and immigrants’ trust in members of the host country. In particular, non-white immigrants had fewer bridging ties and lower levels of Trust in 2018, when the culture was significantly less hospitable to new immigrants on a number of factors.
Recommended Citation
Kole, Debarati, "Does Social Capital Always Affect Immigrant Employment? Analyzing the Mediating Effect of United States’ Cultural Context on the Relationship Between Social Capital and Immigrant Employment" (2022). Sociology and Anthropology. 33.
https://digitalcommons.ndsu.edu/soc-anth/33
Rights
NDSU policy 190.6.2
Rights Link
https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf
Handle Identifier
https://hdl.handle.net/10365/33437