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

博士项目通过讨论在移民中居住和定居的过程和做法，为移民研究提出了一种新的分析视角。它有助于提出三个问题：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，以及德国在讲俄语的移民中是如何居住的，特别是在移民中产阶级领域？通过讨论讲俄语的移民，一个通常被认为不引人注目和不成问题的群体，以及居住在项目中的日常问题反映了不同的移民群体和问题如何成为研究问题，或者相反，保持无关紧要。因此，通过将重点放在居住上，该项目提出了问题，并扩大了现有的流动和移徙分类模式、以族裔和身份为重点的视角以及对文化差异的假设。基于空间和流动性理论，交叉的女权主义分析和现象学观点，该项目提出了一种理论和方法上丰富的家居讨论。它利用传记采访、感官参与者观察和居住在德国大城市的讲俄语的移民的纪实摄影。实证研究的核心描述了德国的三种居住模式，并展示了保持流动、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、行为和传记维度、家务实践和关于家庭的话语。由于这种关注，我的工作为经常被忽视的讲俄语的德国移民以及移民中产阶级的经历、困难和隐藏的伤害提供了新的视角。居住安排清楚地表明了社会向上流动或地位下降。它们揭示了移民行为者的时间、空间和社会取向，并开启了对当地和跨国关系的情境视角。居住方式传达了性别和分类身份的概念、道德经济和美好生活的理念。关于居住的观点揭示了矛盾情绪和微妙的安排，以及一种理所当然的意识，对文化公民的主张，以及对精英制度的悲观信仰，这些都构成了中产阶级的做法。在这一分析的基础上，该项目为更深入地了解移徙中产阶级的问题和适应战略奠定了基础。

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.