‘I wish I were a plumber!’: Transnational class reconstructions across migrant experiences among Hong Kong’s professionals and managers

This study examines processes of class construction within a transnational community of professionals and managers who are emigrants, returnees, and non-migrants. Building on Bourdieu’s class analysis and literature on transnational migration, the article examines how class statuses are supported by...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Current sociology 2020-11, Vol.68 (7), p.872-890
Hauptverfasser:	Lui, Lake, Curran, Sara R
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Bourdieu, Pierre (1930-2002) Capital Discourses Emigration Flexibility Migrants Migration Professionalization Retirement Social capital Social mobility Transnationalism
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