an article by Caroline Plüss (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) published in International Sociology Volume 28 Number 1 (January 2012)
Abstract
This special set of articles promotes new studies and conceptualisations of migrants’ social positioning in the contexts that they form by living in new locations, and/or by being simultaneously connected to several locations.
In different ways, the contributors explain the migrants’ social positioning as consisting of the intersections of the migrants’ various forms of capital, the characteristics of the different locations and of the social actors in these locations that control access to resources, and the migrants’ different aspirations about accessing various resources.
The migrants’ social positioning is presented as an important indicator of their experiences of inequalities.
The articles are highly relevant for conceptualizations and studies of capital conversions in multi-place contexts, migrants’ social integration and non-integration, the intersections of characteristics explaining migrants’ inequalities in place-specific and transnational locations, and for conceptualizations of cultural hybridity.
It is my normal practice to place articles from the same journal into separate blog posts. However. the following four articles in this journal do not seem to stand alone and yet may well be of interest. Links are to abstracts.
Chinese migrants in New York: Explaining inequalities with transnational positions and capital conversions in transnational spaces by Caroline Plüss
http://iss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/28/1/12
Positioning strategies of Polish entrepreneurs in German: transnationalizing Bourdieu’s notion of capital by Magdalena Niowici
http://iss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/28/1/29
Modeling migrant adaptation: Coping with social strain, assimilation, and non-integration by Chan Kwok-bun and Caroline Plüss
http://iss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/28/1/48
Planning for a successful return home: Transnational habitus and education strategies among Japanese expatriate mothers in Los Angeles by Misako Nukaga
http://iss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/28/1/66
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