Despite the centrality of the notion of “capital,” scholarship on international migration has yet to fully explore the generative potential of Bourdieu’s theory. This article “thinks with” Bourdieu to theorize how states, aspiring migrants, and migration brokers interact over the valorization, conversion, and legitimization of various types of capital for migration purposes. Drawing on Bourdieu’s theorization on the state, I identify the variegated ways in which state policies and their enactment by frontline gatekeepers constitute migration-facilitating capital. I show how migration brokers help migrants acquire adequate capital—or the semblance of possession of such capital—to contest the state’s monopolistic claim over the governance of identity, qualification, and mobility. Drawing on Bourdieu’s conceptualization of field, habitus, illusio, and symbolic violence, I analyze how migrants partake in “organized striving” for migration-facilitating capital, the uneven distribution of which produces material and symbolic stratification.

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促进迁徙的资本：布尔迪厄斯国际迁徙理论

尽管“资本”概念很重要，但有关国际移徙的学者尚未充分探索布迪厄理论的产生潜力。本文与布迪厄一起“思考”，以理论化国家，有抱负的移民和移民经纪人如何针对出于移民目的的各种类型的资本的增值，转换和合法化进行互动。借鉴布迪厄对国家的理论，我确定了以多种方式将国家政策及其前线守卫者的制定构成了促进移民的资本。我将展示移民经纪人如何帮助移民获得足够的资本（或拥有这些资本的外表），以对抗国家对身份，资格和流动性治理的垄断主张。借鉴布迪厄对场，习性，幻觉的概念化，