Migrating Cultural Capital: Bourdieu in Migration Studies
Migrating Cultural Capital: Bourdieu in Migration Studies
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DOI：
10.1177/0038038510369363
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发表时间：
2010-08-01
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Erel, Umut
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作者：
Erel, Umut
本文运用布迪厄的文化资本概念来考察移民文化资本的转化与重建。研究往往将移徙者的文化资本视为具体化的和有种族界限的，假定他们从原籍国向移徙国带来了一套文化资源，这些资源要么适合，要么不适合。批评这种“背包的方法”，我认为，移民的结果在新的方式生产和再生产（动员，颁布，验证）文化资本的基础上，而不是简单地反映，无论是原籍国或移民国的权力关系。移徙者为自己的文化资本创造了确认机制，与族裔多数和移徙者的机构和网络进行谈判。移民特有的文化资本（再）产生移民内部的性别、种族和阶级差异，在此过程中创造了替代国家资本的验证模式。这一论点建立在对英国和德国的熟练土耳其和库尔德移民妇女的案例研究基础上。
A Bourdieusian concept of cultural capital is used to investigate the transformations and contestations of migrants' cultural capital. Research often treated migrants' cultural capital as reified and ethnically bounded, assuming they bring a set of cultural resources from the country of origin to the country of migration that either fit or do not fit. Critiquing such 'rucksack approaches', I argue that migration results in new ways of producing and re-producing (mobilizing, enacting, validating) cultural capital that builds on, rather than simply mirrors, power relations of either the country of origin or the country of migration. Migrants create mechanisms of validation for their cultural capital, negotiating both ethnic majority and migrant institutions and networks. Migration-specific cultural capital (re-) produces intra-migrant differentiations of gender, ethnicity and class, in the process creating modes of validation alternative to national capital. The argument builds on case studies of skilled Turkish and Kurdish migrant women in Britain and Germany.