@article{59163,
  abstract     = {{While existing studies have extensively explored various facets of international students’ experiences, a gap remains in understanding the connection between their social capital accumulation and information-seeking practices that shape the incoming students’ extended transition process. Successful information-seeking is not solely related to academic outcome; it is also influenced by the social capital resources available within and beyond familiar cultural groups. This article sheds light on how international students’ social capital accumulation shapes their information searches across various online and offline social networks. A total of ten international students were interviewed at the beginning and the end of their first semester in Germany during the 2022–23 academic year. The findings demonstrate that the incoming students’ information-seeking strategies and social capital accumulation change over time. The students rely on their previously established social connections offline and online when preparing for their departure. Upon arrival in Germany, the students continue to search for information within their linguistic and cultural familiar groups, but their information-seeking process shifts to local in-person contexts. During the semester, lecturers and fellow students become useful information sources at the university while the students develop confidence in their foreign language skills.</jats:p>}},
  author       = {{Teichert, Jeannine and Lin-Januszewski, Liang-Wen}},
  issn         = {{2397-7140}},
  journal      = {{Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration}},
  publisher    = {{Intellect}},
  title        = {{{Linking social capital accumulation and information-seeking practices of international students in Germany}}},
  doi          = {{10.1386/tjtm_00071_1}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}

@article{36701,
  abstract     = {{Nowadays, mobility and transience are no longer exclusively associated with the marginalized and socially excluded, such as homeless or displaced people. On the contrary, mobility and transience have become a constitutive pattern of the highly skilled postmodern workforce. Yet, how mobile professionals negotiate the meaning of their homes in ‘liquid times’ and what homemaking practices they use to deal with the temporal uncertainty of their homes are questions that still require further research. This article – based on ethnographic research on German and American managers conducted in China, Germany and the United States between 2011 and 2014 – contributes to this research question by examining how mobile professionals make sense of the transience of their current homes and how transience is reflected in their homemaking practices. The article argues that for mobile professionals the home becomes a critical place not only because of new multilocal spatialities but also because of new transient temporalities. Due to the corporate practice of giving successive temporary contracts, the mobile managers’ everyday life is characterized by a ‘permanent provisionality’, that is, an incongruence of the initially imagined and the actual time horizons of their mobility. This article shows how this ‘permanent provisionality’ is worked into the material and social textures of expatriate homes.}},
  author       = {{Spiegel, Anna}},
  issn         = {{2397-7140}},
  journal      = {{Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration }},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{89--108}},
  title        = {{{Permanent provisionality: The homes of mobile managerial professionals between temporariness and permanence}}},
  doi          = {{https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm_00034_1}},
  volume       = {{5}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}