Migrants’ Social Positioning Strategies in Transnational Social Spaces

This article examines the nexus of spatial and social mobility by focusing on how migrants in Germany use cultural, economic moral boundaries to position themselves socially transnational spaces. It is based a mixed-methods approach, drawing qualitative interviews panel data from German Socio-Economic Panel Survey. By people different origins classes sets symbolic give meaning their trajectories, we link subjective positioning strategies with structural features people’s experience. We find that class-specific boundary pattern, which has strong features, because tend mix material markers status hierarchies relevant both origin destination countries. identify three types patterns, exemplify ways objective structure subjectively experienced inequalities influence migrants’ These also habitus influences strategies, depending trajectory