Abstract In this article, I show how the category of the migrant house, as has been recently discussed in much scholarship, can be expanded to include another subcategory—the global-middle-class house. Recently, the migrant house has generated much research in migration studies and in disciplines of the built environment. Consequently, it has been examined through various perspectives, including home and belonging, materiality in the home, and the transnational home. It has not been examined, however, through the concepts of cultural capital, taste and kitsch, as developed by Bourdieu and others. This article applies these concepts in the exploration of the migrant house through a case study of one house and its transformation from old to new in suburban Melbourne. The article shows how the concepts of cultural capital, taste and kitsch can be utilized to expand the category of the migrant house to include the global-middle-class house. Following a theoretical discussion, the article analyses the old family house, the decision to demolish, the construction process and the redevelopment of a new house, together with an analysis of material objects in the new house and around it. The article argues that this is a specific kind of a migrant house, a global-middle-class house, because it combines popular global taste with objects taken from the ancestral past of its migrant residents.

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全球中产阶级之家？1 文化资本、品味和媚俗

摘要 在这篇文章中，我展示了如何将移民房屋的类别扩展到另一个子类别——全球中产阶级房屋，正如最近在许多学术中所讨论的那样。最近，移民房屋在移民研究和建筑环境学科方面产生了很多研究。因此，它通过不同的视角进行了研究，包括家庭和归属感、家庭中的物质性和跨国家庭。然而，并没有像布迪厄等人所发展的那样，通过文化资本、品味和媚俗的概念来检验它。本文通过墨尔本郊区的一栋房屋及其从旧到新的转变的案例研究，将这些概念应用到移民房屋的探索中。文章展示了文化资本的概念，品味和媚俗可以用来扩大移民房屋的类别，包括全球中产阶级房屋。在理论讨论之后，文章分析了旧房子、拆除决定、新房子的建造过程和重建，以及对新房子和周围物质的分析。文章认为，这是一种特殊的移民住宅，一座全球中产阶级住宅，因为它结合了流行的全球品味和取自移民居民祖先过去的物品。以及对新房子和周围的物质对象的分析。文章认为，这是一种特殊的移民住宅，一座全球中产阶级住宅，因为它结合了流行的全球品味和取自移民居民祖先过去的物品。以及对新房子和周围的物质对象的分析。文章认为，这是一种特殊的移民住宅，一座全球中产阶级住宅，因为它结合了流行的全球品味和取自移民居民祖先过去的物品。