Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgements

1 Prologue

2 Changing contexts: the growing demand for transnational human capital and the middle- and upper-class quest for distinction

3 Social background makes all the difference: types of capital, class position, and chances for acquiring transnational human capital

4 Strategic investments: families’ class position and their educational practices in everyday life

5 The “brokers”: the formation and structure of a social field of intermediaries of transnational human capital

6 Does going abroad early on pay off? Returns to transnational human capital

7 Epilogue

Appendix: data and methods of analysis

Index

1. Cover
2. Title
3. Copyright
4. Contents
5. List of figures
6. List of tables
7. Acknowledgements
8. 1 Prologue
9. 2 Changing contexts: the growing demand for transnational human capital and the middle- and upper-class quest for distinction
10. 3 Social background makes all the difference: types of capital, class position, and chances for acquiring transnational human capital
11. 4 Strategic investments: families’ class position and their educational practices in everyday life
12. 5 The “brokers”: the formation and structure of a social field of intermediaries of transnational human capital
13. 6 Does going abroad early on pay off? Returns to transnational human capital
14. 7 Epilogue
15. Appendix: data and methods of analysis
16. Index

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Guide

1. Cover
2. Title
3. Copyright
4. Contents
5. List of figures
6. List of tables
7. Acknowledgements
8. Start of Content
9. Appendix: data and methods of analysis
10. Index