Immigrant habitus. Intercultural strategies of the Chinese immigrants in Germany.

Autor/in	Wang, Yihong
Titel	Immigrant habitus. Intercultural strategies of the Chinese immigrants in Germany. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Immigranten-Habitus. Interkulturelle Strategien chinesischer Einwanderer in Deutschland.
Quelle	(2006), 321 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2006.
Beigaben	Fragebogen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
URN	urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-27832
Schlagwörter	Kultur; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Soziale Integration; Interkulturelle Kompetenz; Interkultureller Faktor; Kulturelle Integration; Entwicklungsland; Migration; Migrationshintergrund; Humankapital; Kapital; Sozialkapital; Unternehmer; Akademiker; Habitus; Hochschulschrift; Kulturelles Verhalten; Migrant; Student; Bourdieu, Pierre; Marx, Karl; Asien; China; Deutschland; Hamburg; Ostasien
Abstract	"The thesis discerns how the social agents manage to invest and transform their social resources across boundaries with their different strategies by habitus. This leads to three theses: What are the social resources named by Bourdieu as different forms of capital? What are the immigrants' social resources as different forms of capital to migrate? What are the relations of capital, habitus, field and doxa with immigration and integration? The social resources as different forms of capital are investigated according to the theories of Marx (1986) and Bourdieu (1986, 1992), which explain different steps of the investment and the transformation of forms of capital. In describing the two steps of the investment and the transformation, I particularly emphasize the second transformation step of different forms of capital. The immigrants' habitus is studied from two perspectives: from their roots in the original country and also from their integration into the host country by investing and transforming their different forms of capital in different fields3. On the one hand immigrants in the original country possessing different forms of capital with their habitus which push or not push the emigration; on the other hand the aboriginals possessing different forms of capital with their habitus which also pull or not pull, i.e., accept or not accept immigrants to integrate into their country. When immigrants compete or struggle for the conversion of forms of capital in the fields of a host country, the dominating group will hold privileges in legitimating capital in its own fields. This requires the subordinate group of immigrants to create strategies to manage to achieve the transformation of their capital, which changes their habitus in order to adapt and integrate to the fields of the destination country. Thus it is assumed that, in this process of the discourse, immigrants learn, change and adapt to the new fields and recreate their habitus in order to facilitate their social resources, capital, in this rapidly changed, developed and transmitted world in a receiving country of the 21st century. The thesis employs a triangulation method to testify the theoretical hypothesis and investigates the migrating factors by factor analysis, and see their correlations with different groups of Chinese immigrants in Hamburg with chi-square test and T-test. The thesis finds out that different Chinese immigrant groups have correlations with different forms of capital, such as business group has the goal to achieve economic capital by investing human capital in the host country, student group invests economic capital in order to transform into human capital, catering group invest their cultural capital for obtaining economic capital, and academic group invests human capital to gain more human capital and other forms of capital, too. The thesis has finally established a model which explains that different agents invest and transform different forms of capital in different fields cross social spaces. The model further explains that the integration of the immigrants in the host country changes both immigrants' and indigenous' forms of capital - both of their habitus." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2006/4