Spatial and social im/mobility in forced migration: revisiting class.

This editorial makes the case for revisiting class in the context of forced migration. We argue that this is necessary to better grasp the inherent diversity of forced migrants. Forced-migration research has increasingly considered aspects of differentiation, such as race or gender. Yet, scholarly w...

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Publicado en:Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 48; no. 20; pp. 4829 - 4847
Autores principales: Hunkler, Christian, Scharrer, Tabea, Suerbaum, Magdalena, Yanasmayan, Zeynep
Formato: Editorial
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Nov2022
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          Hunkler, Christian
          Scharrer, Tabea
          Suerbaum, Magdalena
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          Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM), Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
          Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA), Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich, Germany
          Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
          University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
          Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies (IZG), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
          Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany
          German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), Berlin, Germany
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        Refugees
        Forced migration
        Emigration & immigration
        Social mobility
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          Forced migration
          Emigration & immigration
          Social mobility
          Immigrants
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        capitals
        class
        refugee
        social mobility
        spatial mobility
      ab: This editorial makes the case for revisiting class in the context of forced migration. We argue that this is necessary to better grasp the inherent diversity of forced migrants. Forced-migration research has increasingly considered aspects of differentiation, such as race or gender. Yet, scholarly work on social class in this field remains scarce. We argue that forced migrants are wrongly homogenised as 'poor' or 'class-less', and show how class-related capitals and their transferability and convertibility remain important determinants of their spatial and social (im)mobility. We develop this angle by first giving an overview of the class concepts developed by Marx, Weber, and Bourdieu, and the ways the authors of this special issue employed these concepts. Building our arguments on the contributions to this special issue that engage in empirical analyses in diverse settings, we display how social class and the different forms of capital available to forced migrants influence their perception and capacity for spatial mobility. Moreover, we discuss how class at a given moment shapes forced migrants' future social mobility in new settings. We conclude by highlighting the considerable variation in socio-economic backgrounds of forced migrants and discussing the effects of the categorisation as 'refugee'.
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