Urban Cultural Capital and Urban Adaptation of Elderly Immigrants
In the context of accelerated urbanization and aging,the group size of elderly immigrants is becom-ing larger.Inspired by Bourdieu's Cultural Capital,this paper puts forward a concept of operationalized theo-retical analysis--Urban Cultural Capital to study the urban adaptation of this group of people.Urban Cultur-al Capital is a sub-category of Bourdieu's Cultural Capital,and has some distinctive properties and character-istics.Through in-depth interviews with 22 people of this group from cities of different scales in China,the paper finds that the urban adaptation of elderly immigrants is a dynamic process of transformation,which can be divided into two levels:social and cultural adaptation and psychological adaptation.Among them,urban cultural capital plays a key role in their urban adaptation process.Specifically,their adaptation trajectory at the social and cultural level roughly presents a "J-shaped" curve:the stage of acclimatization,the stage of settling down and the stage of feeling comfortable.At the psychological level,the adaptation trajectory roughly presents a "U-shaped" curve:the stage of feeling as tourists and the stage of rural attachment and the stage of stable adaptation.
elderly immigrantsurban adaptationurban cultural capital"J-shaped" curve"U-shaped" curve
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