In this paper, we investigate whether marriage‐related migration promotes socioeconomic mobility and how class belonging and educational background affects Thai women's migration experience and socioeconomic mobility. Drawing on qualitative interviews, supported by a questionnaire survey with Thai women living in Austria and who are in a relationship with a Western male citizen, we seek to dismantle simplistic notions about hypergamy and question common assumption about marrying up or down in migration contexts. We compare socioeconomic indicators such as formal education, occupation, and income before and after the migration and analyse migrants’ experiences in Austria. The results show a complex picture of upward and downward socioeconomic mobilities. Two distinct scenarios of paradoxical mobilities have been identified. On the one hand, some migrants feel empowered (when experiencing economic downward mobility) as they enjoy the freedom of living in Austria, while on the other hand, those migrants experiencing upward mobility feel a loss of their personal autonomy.

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泰国在奥地利结婚的移民的性别，阶级和矛盾行为

在本文中，我们调查了与婚姻有关的移民是否促进了社会经济流动，以及阶级归属和教育背景如何影响泰国妇女的移民经验和社会经济流动。在定性访谈的基础上，通过对居住在奥地利且与西方男性公民有交往的泰国女性进行的问卷调查的支持，我们力求消除关于过性配偶的简单化概念，并质疑有关在移民环境中上下婚姻的普遍假设。我们比较了移民前后的社会经济指标，例如正规教育，职业和收入，并分析了移民在奥地利的经历。结果显示出社会经济活动向上和向下的复杂情况。已经发现了两种截然相反的流动性。一方面，