Undocumented migration and the quantity and quality of social capital

Unlike prior researchers the authors argue that social capital contained in migrant networks is not dichotomous but continuous and varies in terms of quality and quantity. Quality is defined by the strength of social ties to people with US experience and by the closeness of their attachment to the US. Quantity is simply the number of connections at a given level of quality. The authors construct four indices of social capital that take into...