摘要
在借鉴跨国主义理论研究最新成果的基础上,本文试图建立"消费的社会价值兑现"的分析框架来解释国际移民跨越国境的两栖消费现象。我们通过移居美国的福州移民的个案,发现福州移民在其消费过程中,更多地通过在祖籍地的炫耀性、互惠性消费以及代理消费来完成其消费的社会价值兑现,并以此来实现社会地位的提升,也同时改善侨乡福利。福州移民的两栖消费作为个体的日常跨国实践,使移民个体得以充分利用不同民族国家在世界体系中发展水平的落差,实现其社会地位的最有效的表达,并在一定程度上减缓了跨国流动对侨乡与移居地社会的资源分配不平等的冲击,也间接地为移民适应移居地的社会逆境提供了帮助。
We use the concept of 'social value of consumption' to explain the phenomenon of two-way transnational consumption.Our study of Fuzhou immigrants shows that migrants manage to realize the social value of consumption by conspicuous consumption,reciprocal consumption,and agent-assisted consumption in qiaoxiang(hometowns).This two-way consumption pattern is a type of everyday transnationalism,which enables international migrants to take advantage of uneven development between sending and receiving countries in the world system to maximize their expression of social status.Consequently,it contributes to individual status attainment and community welfare while reducing unequal distribution of resources caused by international migration and addressing adjustment problems for immigrants in the host society.
出处
《社会学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2014年第2期43-64,242-243,共22页
Sociological Studies
基金
"理论粤军.广东省优长学科特色学科建设:广州社会服务与管理创新项目"
新加坡南洋理工大学文学院教授科研启动资金
中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金资助
