This article examines transnational social positioning through a family lens. Based on interviews with people who moved to Germany as young adults, we show that socialization and expectations in families coin individual understandings of success as an important baseline for social positioning, while migration challenges these understandings and social position evaluations in complex ways. With a specific focus on evolving processes of social comparison, we look at the role of the family in shaping three forms of transnational social position: (i) transnational status paradox, (ii) attached transnational social positions, and (iii) detached transnational social positions. By demonstrating the various ways in which family relationships affect social positioning in migration contexts, this study contributes to discussions on the links between migration and perceptions of social position, and to our understanding of transnational social structures.

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家庭视角下的跨国社会定位：跨境家庭关系如何塑造移民背景下的主观社会地位

本文通过家庭视角审视跨国社会定位。根据对年轻时移居德国的人的采访，我们发现家庭的社会化和期望将个人对成功的理解作为社会定位的重要基准，而移民则以复杂的方式挑战这些理解和社会地位评估。我们特别关注社会比较的演变过程，研究家庭在塑造三种形式的跨国社会地位中的作用：（i）跨国地位悖论，（ii）依附的跨国社会地位，以及（iii）超然的跨国社会地位。职位。通过展示家庭关系在移民背景下影响社会地位的各种方式，本研究有助于讨论移民与社会地位认知之间的联系，并有助于我们理解跨国社会结构。