Creating Hidden Social Capital: A Case of Indonesian Immigrants of Wongok-dong in South Korea
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the pattern of building social capital among the Indonesian migrants Wongok-dong in South Korea. The earlier researches emphasize that different types of social capital generate different end. However, this claim has the limit to oversimplify social divisions within a community. Because of that, the possibility to yield new types of social capital among members in the social group can be ignored. Through conducting an ethnographic study about the Indonesian immigrants group which has social heterogeneity in Wongok-dong, this paper hence reexamined the concept of social capital. Its research result reveals that the Indonesian migrants play an important role in the creation of various ways through which they connect with their homeland by having social links with people from different social backgrounds. And it also shows that there are some of the Indonesian migrants regarded as isolated persons, because their social networks are limited to the members of their hometown community. Nevertheless, even they obtain chances for transnational activities without big barriers in Wongok-dong as well. This study result sheds somehow new light on the existing concepts of social capital. Although there are differences in terms of the capacity of doing transnational activities, which are shaped by different types of social capital each of Indonesian immigrants has, it is possible for the Indonesian migrants to perform transnational activities through creating and utilizing ‘hidden social capital.’ Therefore, this work might help to give a new angle to the established research practice of social capital.
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the pattern of building social capital among the Indonesian migrants Wongok-dong in South Korea. The earlier researches emphasize that different types of social capital generate different end. However, this claim has the limit to oversimplify social divisions within a community. Because of that, the possibility to yield new types of social capital among members in the social group can be ignored. Through conducting an ethnographic study about the Indonesian immigrants group which has social heterogeneity in Wongok-dong, this paper hence reexamined the concept of social capital. Its research result reveals that the Indonesian migrants play an important role in the creation of various ways through which they connect with their homeland by having social links with people from different social backgrounds. And it also shows that there are some of the Indonesian migrants regarded as isolated persons, because their social networks are limited to the members of their hometown community. Nevertheless, even they obtain chances for transnational activities without big barriers in Wongok-dong as well. This study result sheds somehow new light on the existing concepts of social capital. Although there are differences in terms of the capacity of doing transnational activities, which are shaped by different types of social capital each of Indonesian immigrants has, it is possible for the Indonesian migrants to perform transnational activities through creating and utilizing ‘hidden social capital.’ Therefore, this work might help to give a new angle to the established research practice of social capital.
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