Suburban strivers and the South Bombay elite: How localised micro-categories of class shape international education in Mumbai

Tuxen, Nonie

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“…With few exceptions (such as, TBDS, 2020), the interaction between Taiwanese people and PRC nationals has been described as “ oil is oil, water is water, ” i.e., while both groups can work together, they do not mix socially (Lin, 2007), even though both are equally well-educated and professional. The social and economic history of Indonesia and the hukou system of the PRC explain how the “ localized micro-categories of class ” (Tuxen, 2022: 89) construct and maintain the social hierarchies between the Taiwanese middling migrants and the local people.…”

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Mobility of the educated: Taiwanese migrants in Dongguan and Jakarta

Pan

2023

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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Studies on migration, education and social mobility are usually discussed in three separate fields. This article presents the overlap of these three fields by discussing how Taiwanese migrants in Dongguan and Jakarta perceive the educational opportunities for their children and the ethnic-based status for themselves. The study finds that for people from middle- and working-class families, migration overseas to less developed countries is a good opportunity to obtain higher socio-economic status and an upward mobility path for their children. However, the opportunity also creates unexpected anxieties. The privileges that these migrants obtain and the anxieties they have illustrate opportunity traps for these middling migrants.

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Mobility of the educated: Taiwanese migrants in Dongguan and Jakarta

Pan

2023

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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“…However, I argue that Bourdieu's work on dispositional philosophy of actions, along with his ideas about field and habitus as homologically entwined, is similar in structure and origin but different in function and appearance and is perhaps better suited to situate the changed character of the postliberalization middle classes in relation to postliberalization urbanization in India. Such a position differs from the traditional approach of extending his discussions of forms of capital as determining class distinction (Tuxen, 2022). This does not imply that forms of capital are not crucial to understanding social class; instead, my intention is to draw attention to the conditions under which a certain kind of capital (embodied capital, in this case) becomes the axis of claiming distinction.…”

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SOCIOSPATIAL FORMATION OF MIDDLE‐CLASS DISTINCTION: The Educated Middle Classes in Neo‐urban India

Singh

2024

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In this article I examine the simultaneous expansion of urban sprawl and influx of middle‐class migrants in the context of Gurugram, India, to highlight how physical and social space plays an integral role in shaping class distinction among the migrant middle classes. I make a case for social class, generally, and migrant middle classes in neo‐urban contexts, specifically, to be understood as a sociospatial category. My arguments build primarily on Bourdieu's argument that both physical and social space operates on similar principles of reciprocal externality of positions in the context of social class distinction. I highlight how the migrant middle classes formulate and consolidate their social class distinction against competing claims over sociospatial dominance of the local ancestral agrarian community in neo‐urban Gurugram, India. My findings highlight how existing local sociopolitical fractures interact with global capitalist circuits of capital to shape the sociospatial context in which social class distinction is formulated. The article allows for grounding theorizations of social class to accommodate local sociopolitical and sociospatial dynamics.

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Suburban strivers and the South Bombay elite: How localised micro-categories of class shape international education in Mumbai

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Mobility of the educated: Taiwanese migrants in Dongguan and Jakarta

Mobility of the educated: Taiwanese migrants in Dongguan and Jakarta

SOCIOSPATIAL FORMATION OF MIDDLE‐CLASS DISTINCTION: The Educated Middle Classes in Neo‐urban India

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