--- _id: '59163' abstract: - lang: eng text: 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. article_type: original author: - first_name: Jeannine full_name: Teichert, Jeannine id: '83055' last_name: Teichert orcid: 0000-0002-7571-891X - first_name: Liang-Wen full_name: Lin-Januszewski, Liang-Wen id: '83883' last_name: Lin-Januszewski citation: ama: 'Teichert J, Lin-Januszewski L-W. Linking social capital accumulation and information-seeking practices of international students in Germany. Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration. Published online 2025. doi:10.1386/tjtm_00071_1' apa: 'Teichert, J., & Lin-Januszewski, L.-W. (2025). Linking social capital accumulation and information-seeking practices of international students in Germany. Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration. https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm_00071_1' bibtex: '@article{Teichert_Lin-Januszewski_2025, title={Linking social capital accumulation and information-seeking practices of international students in Germany}, DOI={10.1386/tjtm_00071_1}, journal={Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration}, publisher={Intellect}, author={Teichert, Jeannine and Lin-Januszewski, Liang-Wen}, year={2025} }' chicago: 'Teichert, Jeannine, and Liang-Wen Lin-Januszewski. “Linking Social Capital Accumulation and Information-Seeking Practices of International Students in Germany.” Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm_00071_1.' ieee: 'J. Teichert and L.-W. Lin-Januszewski, “Linking social capital accumulation and information-seeking practices of international students in Germany,” Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, 2025, doi: 10.1386/tjtm_00071_1.' mla: 'Teichert, Jeannine, and Liang-Wen Lin-Januszewski. “Linking Social Capital Accumulation and Information-Seeking Practices of International Students in Germany.” Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, Intellect, 2025, doi:10.1386/tjtm_00071_1.' short: 'J. Teichert, L.-W. Lin-Januszewski, Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration (2025).' date_created: 2025-03-26T16:25:06Z date_updated: 2025-07-03T09:03:54Z doi: 10.1386/tjtm_00071_1 language: - iso: eng publication: 'Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration' publication_identifier: issn: - 2397-7140 - 2397-7159 publication_status: published publisher: Intellect quality_controlled: '1' status: public title: Linking social capital accumulation and information-seeking practices of international students in Germany type: journal_article user_id: '83055' year: '2025' ... --- _id: '36701' abstract: - lang: eng text: "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 â\x80\x98liquid timesâ\x80\x99 and what homemaking practices they use to deal with the temporal uncertainty of their homes are questions that still require further research. This article â\x80\x93 based on ethnographic research on German and American managers conducted in China, Germany and the United States between 2011 and 2014 â\x80\x93 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 managersâ\x80\x99 everyday life is characterized by a â\x80\x98permanent provisionalityâ\x80\x99, that is, an incongruence of the initially imagined and the actual time horizons of their mobility. This article shows how this â\x80\x98permanent provisionalityâ\x80\x99 is worked into the material and social textures of expatriate homes." author: - first_name: Anna full_name: Spiegel, Anna id: '97205' last_name: Spiegel orcid: 0000-0002-4326-8141 citation: ama: 'Spiegel A. Permanent provisionality: The homes of mobile managerial professionals between temporariness and permanence. Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration . 2021;5(2):89-108. doi:https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm_00034_1' apa: 'Spiegel, A. (2021). Permanent provisionality: The homes of mobile managerial professionals between temporariness and permanence. Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration , 5(2), 89–108. https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm_00034_1' bibtex: '@article{Spiegel_2021, title={Permanent provisionality: The homes of mobile managerial professionals between temporariness and permanence}, volume={5}, DOI={https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm_00034_1}, number={2}, journal={Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration }, author={Spiegel, Anna}, year={2021}, pages={89–108} }' chicago: 'Spiegel, Anna. “Permanent Provisionality: The Homes of Mobile Managerial Professionals between Temporariness and Permanence.” Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration 5, no. 2 (2021): 89–108. https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm_00034_1.' ieee: 'A. Spiegel, “Permanent provisionality: The homes of mobile managerial professionals between temporariness and permanence,” Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration , vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 89–108, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm_00034_1.' mla: 'Spiegel, Anna. “Permanent Provisionality: The Homes of Mobile Managerial Professionals between Temporariness and Permanence.” Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration , vol. 5, no. 2, 2021, pp. 89–108, doi:https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm_00034_1.' short: 'A. Spiegel, Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration 5 (2021) 89–108.' date_created: 2023-01-13T12:14:05Z date_updated: 2023-01-13T12:16:59Z doi: https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm_00034_1 intvolume: ' 5' issue: '2' language: - iso: eng page: 89-108 publication: 'Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration ' publication_identifier: issn: - 2397-7140 publication_status: published quality_controlled: '1' status: public title: 'Permanent provisionality: The homes of mobile managerial professionals between temporariness and permanence' type: journal_article user_id: '97205' volume: 5 year: '2021' ...