Abstract

This article explores the emigration of tertiary-educated EU citizens with North African heritage to Dubai. Longitudinal ethnographic data suggests that leaving Europe was a mobility strategy for dealing with a sense of ‘racial stuckedness’ at home, a status concern undergirding their stagnant socio-economic position. By ‘transnationalizing’ Bourdieu’s seminal conceptual tool kit of the ‘forms of capital’, it contrasts the conversion yields of timely achieved educational credentials, marked by racial friction at home but significantly higher returns after transgressing into more favorable status zones overseas. This differently structured outcome suggests the analytical productivity of an altogether distinct value form, ‘racial capital.’

摘要

本文探讨了具有北非遗产的受过高等教育的欧盟公民向迪拜的移民。纵向的人种学数据表明，离开欧洲是一种应对家中“种族黏附”感的流动策略，这是对他们经济社会停滞不前状况的一种关注。通过使布迪厄的“资本形式”具有开创性的概念工具包“跨国化”，它对比了及时获得的教育证书的转换收益，其特征是国内的种族摩擦，但在进入海外更有利的地位地区后回报显着提高。这种结构不同的结果表明，完全不同的价值形式“种族资本”的分析生产率。