Mobility: A Practice or a Capital?

摘要: Grounded in the literature theorising cross-border mobility as an unequally distributed resource, this chapter develops following argument: is more than a practice or strategy that people “do”; it also, under certain conditions, form of capital one may possess and mobilise to pursue advantages. While “mobility practices” refers concrete physical movements, capital” refers, on hand, accumulated past experiences mobility, and, other, potential future movements could be undertaken if when beneficial. By considering type capital, possible investigate ways which social actors position articulate benefit simultaneously from local anchorage practices. The argument builds fundamental characteristic capitals: their convertibility into other types capital. empirically demonstrates how mobile respondents transform different forms (transnationally acquired) It focuses Bourdieu’s classic (economic, cultural capital) but also offers account “legal capital”: for Somali migrants, acquiring passport country residence necessary ability cross borders legally eventually develop