List of Tables

Table 2.1 Comparing and contrasting three epistemological standpoints of ethnography

Table 2.2 Comparing the policies of the three NGO groups in Hong Kong

Table 2.3 Comparing three clan associations in Hong Kong

Table 2.4 The identification of eight different key players in migrant communities

Table 3.1 Migrants switching professions before and after their arrivals in Hong Kong

Table 3.2 The length of separation between married couples under the one-way permit scheme

Table 3.3 Education attainment between migrants and the population as a whole

Table 3.4 Major sources of family incomes of new arrivals from 1998 to 2002

Table 3.5 Comparing perception of social status between local and migrant women

Table 4.1 The use of ties in different life events affecting Sandy

Table 4.2 Mr. and Mrs. Ma's engagement in social exchange and associated cost in year 2002

Table 5.1 Miss Cheung's involvement in multiple institutions in her daily life

Table 6.1 Miss Lin's complexity of role expectations

Table 6.2 Collective events and features in clan associations

Table 7.1 Social capital building among Chinese migrants in Hong Kong

Table 7.2 Comparing and contrasting ‘seen’ and ‘unseen’ social capital

Table 7.3 Illustrating ‘unseen’ social capital by everyday lives of mainland Chinese migrants

List of Figures

Figure 1.1 Social capital and the second-generation collective-action model

Figure 3.1 The population change in Hong Kong

Figure 3.2 Percentage distribution of population by place of birth in Hong Kong, 1961-1991

Figure 4.1 Sandy, 40 years old, married with two children, arriving in Hong Kong in 1996

Figure 5.1 A simplified version of Williamson's economic analysis of Institution

List of Boxes

Box 1.1 Ostrom's Design Principles in building organisational social capital within groups

Box 3.1 Ah Ming (Ah Ching's daughter), 9 years old, born in China

Box 4.1 Miss Li, 20 years old, arriving in Hong Kong in 2001

Box 4.2 Ah Ching, aged 38, arriving in Hong Kong in 1999

Box 4.3 Ah Ming (Ah Ching's daughter), 9 years old, born in China

Box 4.4 Childcare advertisements in community currency newsletters

Box 4.5 Mr. Au, 60 years old, unemployed steel worker

Box 5.1 Using sanctions in the female migrant mutual-help group

Box 5.2 Choosing leaders in the female migrant mutual-help group