Dwelling after Migration. Materialism, Hope and Melancholia among Russian Speaking Migrant Middle Classes

博士项目通过讨论迁移过程和居住和定居的实践，为迁移研究提供了一个新的分析视角。它提出了三个问题：移民社会学可以通过居住来理解什么？如何理解移民中的居住，以及德国如何在俄语移民中居住，特别是在移民中产阶级领域内？通过讨论讲俄语的移民，一个通常被认为不引人注目和没有问题的群体，以及居住的日常问题，该项目反映了不同的移民群体和问题如何成为一个研究问题，或者相反地保持无关紧要。因此，通过对居住项目问题的关注，拓宽了既定的流动和移民分类模式，以种族和身份为重点的观点以及关于文化差异的假设。基于空间和流动性理论、交叉性女权主义分析和现象学观点，该项目提出了一个关于家庭制作的理论和方法上的丰富讨论。它借鉴了生活在德国大城市的俄语移民的传记采访、感官参与观察和纪实摄影。实证研究的核心描述了德国的三种居住模式，并揭示了保持流动、定居以及建立和装饰家庭空间的策略和过程。类型学重建了住房安排的空间和材料、行动学和传记维度、家庭实践和家庭生活话语。由于这种关注，我的作品揭示了经常被忽视的讲俄语的移民到德国，以及移民中产阶级的经历、困难和隐藏的伤害。居住安排阐明了社会地位的上升或下降。它们揭示了移民行为者的时间、空间和社会取向，并打开了对地方和跨国关系的定位视角。居住方式传达了性别和阶级认同、道德经济和美好生活的观念。住宅的视角揭示了矛盾和微妙的安排，以及一种权利意识，对文化公民身份的要求和对精英统治的忧郁信仰，这些构成了中产阶级的实践。在此分析的基础上，本项目为深入了解移民中产阶级的问题和适应策略奠定了基础。

The Phd-Project proposes a new lens of analysis for migration studies through the discussion of processes and practices of dwelling and settling in migration. It contributes to three questions: What can migration sociology understand through dwelling? How to understand dwelling in migration and how is Germany inhabited among Russian speaking migrants, especially within in the field of migrant middle classes? By discussing Russian-speaking migrants, a group often perceived as unobtrusive and unproblematic, and the quotidian problem of dwelling the project reflects how different migrant groups and matters become a research problem or on the contrary stay irrelevant. Thus through the focus on dwelling the project questions and broadens established modes of classification of mobility and migration, ethnic and identity focused perspectives as well as assumptions about cultural difference. Building upon spatial and mobility theory, intersectional feminist analysis and phenomenological perspectives the project proposes a theoretically and methodologically rich discussion of home making. It draws upon biographical interviews, sensory participant observation and documentary photography among Russian-speaking migrants living in bigger German cities. The heart of the empirical research describes three modes of dwelling in Germany and unfolds strategies and processes of staying mobile, settling down and setting up and decorating domestic space. The typology reconstructs spatial and material, praxeological and biographical dimensions of housing-arrangements, home-making practices and discourses on domesticity.As a result of this focus my work sheds new light on the often-overlooked migrations of Russian speakers to Germany and the experiences, difficulties and hidden injuries of migrant middle classes. Dwelling arrangements articulate social upward mobility ora decline in status. They reveal temporal, spatial and social orientations of migrants actors and open a situated perspective on local and transnational relations. Ways of dwelling convey notions of gendered and classed identity, moral economies and ideas of good life. The perspective on dwelling reveals ambivalences and subtle arrangements as well as a sense of entitlement, claims to cultural citizenship and melancholic believes in meritocracy that constitute middle class practices. Building upon this analysis the project sets the ground for a deeper understanding of problems and adaption strategies of migrant middle classes.