个体空间:基于移民生活史的空间解读

Individual Space:A Space Study Based on the Life History of the Migration

本文以生活史(life history)为研究方法,对三位在中国大陆和加拿大之间跨国流动的华人移民的生活经历进行了研究。研究者发现,个体空间是移民生活中一个重要的概念。结合研究对象对空问的感知、描述和诠释,本文对个体空间概念进行了分析,提出个体空间象征着移民在跨国流动中形成的微观生活状态,包含了具有自我意识的个体、空间实践和社会关系的构成。个体空间作为空间结构的最小单位,其与外在的其他空间结构共时同存,与全球化背景下的空间转向相契合,为空间研究和跨国流动研究提供了一个基于个体视角的理解框架。

The study takes three Chinese migrants who had migrated from China to Canada and then returned back to China as its research participants.By life history research method,their migration stories are collected and analyzed.The study reveals that the concept of ' space' is frequently used in the participants' narratives,with its special significance to the migration life.Based on the participants' feeling,description and explanation on the space,the concept's content and structure are analyzed and its meanings to the migrants' life are interpreted.An individual space theory is constructed which shows that during the transnational journey,the space is a kind of micro life status which is grounded on participants' personal characteristics and capitals,and is reconstructed by their social practices when interacting and negotiating with other social spaces.The paper gives a research framework for the space study and transnational mobilization in the view of the individual.