The paper explores different ways of thinking about evaluating cultural resources in East–West migration in Europe and broader international migration. It goes beyond the dominant Bourdieusian approaches used to evaluate migration in terms of cultural capital, which tend to measure migrants’ cultural competencies as calculable entities and overlook emergent regimes of value often leading to the exclusion of itinerant people. The paper draws on the ideas of Gilles Deleuze and Friedrich Nietzsche to reformulate value in relation to transnational cultural resources, re‐think distance in negotiation of cultural preferences, and highlight spatio‐temporal uncertainty of evaluation. It unsettles the attempts to represent cultural resources of migrants solely in relation to the external system of values, determined in relation to Bourdieu's habitus. It argues that in the process of migration habitus mediates what things are valued, converted, and exchanged in different contexts, but obscures emergent, affective practices and attitudes. To attend to these mobile practices, the paper explores evaluations as “ways of being” and highlights active or becoming evaluation that expresses the migrants’ relational movement with the world. Using a range of qualitative examples from a long‐term study of Eastern European migration to Scotland, it questions the placement of evaluation in relation to a region and specific type of migration. The paper challenges the existence of a self‐defining migrant subject making evaluations and highlights the emergence of hybrid arrangements of people, memories, and things in migration. It considers how such migration “assemblages” redefine “minor” in existing systems of cultural validation and expand cultural con/dis‐junctions. It highlights temporal and spatial uncertainty of evaluation and expresses multiple evaluating claims in migration that are not teleological or subordinated to consciousness. It concludes with conceptual observations about the use of “nomadic” thinking, the language of multiplicity, non‐representation, and immanent production of difference in migration research.

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评估跨欧洲移民的过程：超越文化资本

本文探讨了评估欧洲东西向移民和更广泛的国际移民中文化资源的不同思考方式。它超越了用于根据文化资本评估移民的占主导地位的布尔迪厄斯方法，该方法倾向于将移民的文化能力衡量为可计算的实体，而忽视了新兴的价值体系，这些价值体系常常导致流动人口被排斥在外。本文借鉴了吉勒斯·德勒兹（Gilles Deleuze）和弗里德里希·尼采（Friedrich Nietzsche）的思想，重新制定了与跨国文化资源相关的价值，重新考虑了文化偏好谈判的距离，并强调了评估的时空不确定性。它使试图仅仅根据与布尔迪厄的习惯有关的外部价值体系来代表移民的文化资源的尝试感到不安。它认为，在迁移过程中，习性会在不同的环境中介导事物的价值，转化和交换，但是却掩盖了新兴的情感实践和态度。为了参与这些移动实践，本文将评估作为“生存方式”进行探讨，并着重强调了积极的或正在成为评估，以表达移民与世界的关系运动。通过对东欧移民到苏格兰的长期研究，使用一系列定性的例子，它质疑评估相对于一个地区和特定移民类型的位置。该论文挑战了自我定义的移民主体进行评估的存在，并强调了移民中人，记忆和事物的混合安排的出现。它考虑了这种移徙如何“集合”在现有文化验证系统中重新定义“未成年人”并扩大文化联系/分离。它突出了评估的时间和空间不确定性，并表达了迁移过程中的多种评估主张，这些主张不是目的论的，也不是从属于从属的。最后以关于“游牧”思想的使用，迁移研究中的多样性，无代表性和永久产生差异的语言的概念性观察作为结束。