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Current Sociology

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期刊簡介

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About Current Sociology

Current Sociology is a fully peer-reviewed, international journal that publishes original research and innovative critical commentary both on current debates within sociology as a developing discipline, and the contribution that sociologists can make to understanding and influencing current issues arising in the development of modern societies in a globalizing world.

An official journal of the International Sociological Association since 1952, Current Sociology is one of the oldest and most widely cited sociology journals in the world. Current Sociology publishes peer-reviewed articles in all areas of sociology - theories, methods, concepts, substantive research, and national/regional developments of interest to sociologists internationally.

The journal is also soliciting articles reviewing emergent and challenging issues: substantive, conceptual, theoretical, and methodological. Its interest will be specifically in developments and controversies in fields and areas of sociological inquiry.

Journal metrics

• First decision: 52 days，指從投稿到收到期刊的第一份評審決定，平均需要 52 天。

• Acceptance to publication: 28 days，指從論文被接收（接受發表）到正式出版，平均需要 28 天。

• Acceptance rate: 23.6%，指該期刊的論文接受率為 23.6%，也就是投稿的論文中，大約有 23.6% 會被接受發表。

• Impact factor: 1.6，即影響因子為 1.6，影響因子是衡量期刊影響力的一個指標，反映了該期刊論文被引用的平均頻率。

• 5 year impact factor: 2.5，表示 5 年影響因子為 2.5，是綜合考慮近 5 年期刊論文被引用情況得出的指標，能更全面地體現期刊在較長時間內的影響力。

Current issue

Current Sociology

原版目錄

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Articles

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Translation and transformation of class through migration: Rethinking social and spatial mobility across contexts

Jamie Coates，Catriona Turnbull，Maja Cederberg

This issue of Current Sociology Monographs explores new conceptual opportunities at the intersection of migration studies and the sociology of class. The contributions examine migration as a distinct site where class is translated and transformed, using rich, empirically specific cases to show how social class is experienced and produced relationally, transnationally and temporally through the lives of migrants. Through this focus, the papers conceptualise class as a mobile process that travels with migrants, links different contexts and is translated through movement. Distinct from paradigms that tend to universalise a particular narrative or definition of class, this issue adopts a comparative and inductive approach aimed at exploring tensions between the universal and the particular. The contributions share a commitment to qualitative enquiry that attends to the particular, affective and experiential dimensions of class as shared and expressed by migrants, using these as an entry point to retheorise class ‘on the move’. Incorporating ethnography, life histories, intergenerational approaches and spatial mapping, the authors inductively examine how class shapes migrants’ lived experiences in diverse contexts. Some researchers follow participants across borders, whereas others trace the imaginative trajectories through which migrants recall and explain their movements. Contributions orient their analyses around relationality, transnationality and temporality, showing how class emerges as inherently processual and mobile, linking the personal and the global, the embodied and the institutional, and pasts and futures. Each link foregrounds translation and transformation as both an empirical process and a methodological sensibility, demonstrating how migration unsettles the taken-for-granted and provides opportunities to reconsider established theories of class.

Fluid yet sticky? Exploring social class through the lens of transnational migration

Magdalena Nowicka

This article draws on original interviews with Polish migrants in the United Kingdom to address a critical gap in social class research, arguing that class is a fluid yet sticky category. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of class and Floya Anthias’ intersectional approach, it advocates for a nuanced, transnational understanding of social class and positionalities. The class positions of Polish migrants in the United Kingdom are coproduced through the entanglement of racial and classed imaginaries, among other factors. Despite their phenotypical and self-identified whiteness, these migrants face challenges to their own class identities. Their aspirations for social advancement in the United Kingdom, grounded in the meritocratic ideal, clash with the barriers they linked to racialization and other forms of discrimination. The relative marginalization of social class in migration studies parallels its broader neglect in debates surrounding belonging. Offering an expanded migration lens, this article argues that not only is social class shaped by interconnected, dynamic factors constituting a foundational dimension of lived experience in a transnational context, it exhibits duality: It is inherently volatile and yet sticky.

Distinction by design: Classed national identity in Dubai’s market economy

Hee Eun Kwon

This article examines how national identity operates as form of a classed distinction within Dubai’s market economy, shaped by restrictive migration regimes and embedded hierarchies between nationals and non-nationals. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at the textile market in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), this article argues that class is not simply imported by migrants from their countries of origin, but actively co-produced through legal and symbolic hierarchies in the host context. Emirati nationals, supported by legal protections and symbolic capital, occupy dominant economic and social positions in the market, transforming it into a stage for entrepreneurial display and status performance. In contrast, non-nationals navigate their structurally constrained roles, where ethnoracial status is frequently conflated with class, while gender and religion further shape the performance and contestation of classed identity. These dynamics illustrate how classed subjectivities emerge within a spectacle of exclusion and differentiation, wherein social status is performed through national belonging. By tracing the intersections, this article contributes to emerging scholarship on class formation in migration contexts, offering a deeper understanding of how national identity redefines the contours of class.

Neo-colonial narratives in modern migration: Housing practices and class dynamics of Indian migrants in Frankfurt a.M

Dhara Patel

This article examines the housing practices and spatial inequalities within the Indian diaspora in Frankfurt, shaped by Germany’s evolving migration trends and neoliberal housing policies. The recent 495% increase in Indian highly skilled migrants contrasts sharply with earlier labour-driven Indian migration waves, creating distinct class-based residential patterns. While highly skilled migrants leverage financial capital to enter homeownership, labour migrants – once beneficiaries of Germany’s welfare-oriented housing system – now face heightened precarity due to the financialisation of housing markets. Using urban mapping, spatial analysis and in-depth interviews, this study reveals persistent residential segregation, exacerbated by class-based exclusions and shifting welfare policies. Highly skilled migrants’ property ownership in gentrified districts like Ostend and Kalbach-Riedberg contrasts with labour migrants’ reliance on subsidised rental housing in areas like H?chst and Gallus, reinforcing class hierarchies within the diaspora. By examining how the entanglement of neoliberal urbanism, nested identities and postcolonial legacies shapes housing access in Frankfurt, this article reveals how class stratification within the Indian diaspora is both historically rooted and actively reproduced. While financialised housing markets and state withdrawal from welfare provisions deepen exclusion, these structural inequities remain inseparable from postcolonial hierarchies that continue to dictate mobility, opportunity and spatial belonging.

Classes in transition: Intergenerational family trajectories and forced migration in historical context

Johannes Becker，Arne Worm

Flight trajectories are not only a matter of spatial mobility but are also concerned with social mobility. Class dynamics shape possibilities for action and the character of refugees’ networks. Moving or being forced to move and the planning of routes and destinations are closely interrelated with the migrant’s class at the outset of their journey. Migration is also related to previous trajectories of social mobility and the transmission of resources, knowledge and practices. Based on research on processes of flight from the war in Syria since 2011, in this article, we propose the reconstruction of life histories and family histories over several generations as a means of better understanding the relationship between class and (forced) migration. We argue that to reconstruct processes of social mobility in the context of flight, it is necessary to embed these processes in their socio-historical contexts in addition to considering the extent to which class positions are spatially bound or valid across different spaces. We shall detail these considerations while reconstructing the course of a migration from a multigenerational perspective – specifically, the social rise and fall over four generations of a Syriac Orthodox family who moved to Germany from the Syria–Turkey border. The study of the relationship between social mobility and migration requires consideration of the processes of class formation in the region of origin (a region characterised by postcolonial and socialist state formation) in relation to the region of arrival (the genesis of a migrant working class) and the transnational connections between both regions.

Migration, class and the intergenerational self in contemporary Australia: Exploring family legacies

Eve Vincent，Rose Butler

Recent sociological scholarship in the United Kingdom deploys the concept of the ‘intergenerational self’ to think about class misidentification in the context of upward social mobility. In this article, we argue that the concept of the ‘intergenerational self’ proves especially fruitful when deployed to think about personal migration histories. We draw on our recent study of cross-class relationships in Australia to argue that in the context of spatial mobilities scholarly attention should be focused on the intergenerational transmission of class and the complexities of its subjective and affective inheritance under new conditions. In the process, we engage the concept of the ‘intergenerational self’ to new ends, exploring the ways our research participants gestured to, grappled with and strived to honour family legacies. In this article, we delve into three research participants’ class-origin stories from our 38 in-depth interviews. These selected life stories pivot around migration, the legacies of family class positions, and the forces of racialisation and racism in the transmission and transformation of class capital and identity in Australia. We explore our interviewees’ efforts to remember and respect their parents’ and grandparents’ complex realities and struggles within their own narratives about class identification. The ‘intergenerational self’ thus helps us understand the way our research participants faced the class contradictions, misrecognition and opportunities that migration and racialisation had afforded, ultimately highlighting the significance of familial class legacies within class identities.

On a quest for social mobility: The high-risk educational strategies of Indian medical students in Georgia

Mette Ginnerskov-Dahlberg

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2021 and 2024, this article presents an empirical investigation of the aspirations and educational strategies of Indian students pursuing medical education in the post-Soviet country Georgia. Contrary to the stereotype often connected to international student migration, the students in this study are not a part of an affluent global middle-class, nor have they grown up in internationally oriented families with long traditions of medical doctors. Their decision to pursue education in Georgia is motivated by ambitions of social mobility and, as part of this pursuit, the goal of securing a sustainable livelihood in India. The students arrive in Georgia armed with the hope that an international degree will have an ‘escalator effect’, entailing that a spatial move will facilitate a social mobility outcome. The success of their mobility project is, however, far from assured. Upon returning to their homeland, India – where most students intend to practice – a rigorous and highly competitive screening test with a very low pass rate awaits them. This article highlights how the journey of Indian aspiring medical doctors is precarious, best understood as a ‘high-risk’ educational strategy. Despite investing 6?years in studies abroad, obtaining the anticipated medical licence remains uncertain. Therefore, these students’ stories are not defined by assured success but by a blend of hope, ambition, and the possibility of both progress and substantial challenges.

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