El capital social de los hijos de inmigrantes procedentes de Rumanía, Ecuador y Marruecos en España

Résumé

The term social capital is one of the most used in the specialized literature of recent decades. In fact, it is a concept clearly reminiscent of different contents, but difficult to measure, depending on the definition used. From a work of disaggregation into components and a concrete methodological proposal, we have tried to elaborate a synthetic index to measure the social capital and another one for the relational goods. The fundamental content of this article includes this proposal and its application to young people (between 18 and 29 years old) who, with or without Spanish nationality, have a recent past of family migration and a minimum of 15 years in our country. In addition, a comparison has been established between those who make up our field of study and two other groups with whom they share important characteristics but differ in significant aspects: immigrant adults living in Spain with whom they share cultural background and young Spaniards between 18 and 29 years old without recent family migration past with whom they share age and, in many cases, nationality.