Material, emotion and power: Transnational migration and home geography

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2022.06.2021246

Abstract

Abstract:

With the increasing focus on the research of mobilities, home gradually becomes an important concept to understand the everyday practice of the transitional migrants in the field of cultural geography. This article reviewed the literature about home geography and transitional migration. The results are summarized as followed: first, the research of the home of the transnational migration starts to absorb the theories related to the material and emotional geography and political economy, therefore, cultural geographers could make contributions to the theories of home by combining the concepts of material, emotion and power; second, the research of the spatial politics of transnational migration main focuses on the female group, the marginalized class and the proforma civic rights. Additionally, there is a trend that research focus shift to the male, the elite class and super citizenship while this shift provides new perspectives to study "home" in the context of the mobilities; finally, this article puts forwards the conceptual model of the "home" of the transnational migration through three elements, namely, material, emotion and power. It stresses on the importance of the residential space, urban space and transnational space and the mechanism of the scale interactions.

Key words: transnational migration, home geography, space, material, emotion, power

摘要：

随着新文化地理学对流动研究的持续关注，家逐渐成为理解跨国移民日常生活实践的重要概念。本文回顾了家的地理学与跨国移民研究的文献，结果发现：首先，跨国移民家的研究开始吸收物质、情感地理学及政治经济学相关理论，文化地理学者可以结合物质、情感与权力创新“家”的理论；其次，跨国移民家的空间政治主要是基于女性、边缘化阶层以及形式上的公民权，有关男性、精英阶层、内容上的超公民权等研究不仅会成为跨国移民研究的趋势，也会为流动性背景下家的研究提供更多的视角。最后，本文提出跨国移民“家”的实践三要素（物质、情感与权力）概念框图，强调从住宅空间、城市空间与跨国空间尺度对家的实践及尺度互动机制进行探讨。

关键词: 跨国移民, 家的地理学, 空间, 物质, 情感, 权力

Bo ZHANG, Meixin LIU, Xiaomei CAI. Material, emotion and power: Transnational migration and home geography[J]. World Regional Studies, 2022, 31(6): 1130-1141.

张博, 刘美新, 蔡晓梅. 物质、情感和权力：跨国移民与家的地理学[J]. 世界地理研究, 2022, 31(6): 1130-1141.

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