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Cultural cap and mig workers in Scotland, fam

 Migrant farm workers dipped from their country of origin and jetted to Scotland in search and hope of better opps. No cap, as soon as they touched down in the new country, they straight up started grinding on them farms and flexing their cultural clout in the job scene. Evidence lowkey shows that migrants' cultural flex might get invaded and their achievements be straight up undermined. Like, if we don't give props to the cultural clout of local workers (ya know, the OGs) and we keep downplaying the accomplishments of migrants, then migrants won't be treated equally and stuff. The outcome is like, the chance of totally ending the whole vibe of equal valuations of cultural capital that make migrants hella vulnerable and increasing claims to equality, you know?

Research on recent migration into Scotland suggests that low paid gigs marked with low skillz are held by many migrants even tho they're overqualified for that kinda hustle (Rolfe and Metcalf, 2009). Migration research suggests that immigrants who are holding less skilled jobs in the UK used to hold high skilled occupations in their country of origins (Kim et al., 2010), fam. Many migrants still struggle to get good jobs (Granato, 2006) and feel like their skills aren't valued or recognized (Kofman and Raghuram, 2005; Williams, 2006), even though highly skilled migrant workers are usually more educated and their mad skills should help them get good jobs and make more money (Borjas, 1990, Erel, 2010). OMG, like fr, it can lowkey take forever to find the right job that matches their skills and education. Ok but like, the thing is, if migrants' qualifications can't even get clout in the mainstream culture, it might mean they don't have any cultural capital. Just sayin'.

Many migrant workers are like, lowkey assumed to be less educated and less skilled, but like, that's not always the tea, you know? 

 Many of them flexin' that institutionalized cultural capital, ya know? academics be like qualifications, fam. Yet, they might be labeled as low-key basic working class in terms of the economy in a specific country. Many of them might flex into less skilled gigs to support their fam back home even if it means sacrificing a lit education and high-skill jobs when they realize their cultural clout doesn't vibe or get recognized in the new country. Many peeps still gotta deal with a limited choice, so they might end up takin' jobs that don't match their skills or qualifications from before they migrated. The stuff and vibes that migrant workers have like language, knowledge, skills, vibes, values, customs, talents, accent or skin color may or may not vibe with the basic culture or the culture of the country they move to. When they pull up in a new country, they be flexin' their own stuff and showin' mad interest in gettin' equal rights for their culture. It doesn't, like, mean that all migrant workers have, like, formal education and skills as, like, institutionalized cultural capital. When they bounce from one country to another, they always bring along certain vibes of cultural clout, which can be official or casual, established or unestablished. Not gonna lie, they be tryna flex their resources to blend in with the dominant culture of the host society and turn their cultural clout into national clout to be all legit (Hage, 1998:53). But like, imagine if they dipped with some serious cash. The currency only has vibes and meaning in a certain context of flex and becomes straight up trash in another country, fam. Money can be flexed in ways that aren't as basic as clout. However, cuz of the process of cultural reproduction, aspects of cultural capital get passed on from person to person and that's what gives migrant generations a leg up in gaining skills and educational achievements. Cultural capital, like, you know, that thing Pierre Bourdieu came up with? It's all about flexing your cultural knowledge and stuff, whether it's through experiences, objects, or institutions. It's basically a way to level up in society and get that social clout, ya know?

just flexin' dem social differences, ya feel me?

 

It's like, when someone invests in culture and stuff, and then they can totally get something back from it. It's like a cool way to consume, you know? The clout of cultural capital is boosted if there's a whack distribution of that capital among peeps. Yo, in this research, my arguments are all about the cultural flex that migrant workers bring to the table. It's like their cultural capital, you know? And we gotta use that to fight for equality and get the state to protect it. We gotta dig into all these equality theories and principles, not just about how stuff gets distributed in society, but also how farm migrants go through their jobs and their social and cultural changes, ya feel me? I lowkey think that migrants could flex their cultural clout to secure equal opps, ya know? As long as they don't get tripped up by the whole qualifications and skills not being recognized and the whole racism thing in the job scene. I also wanna flex that the level of protection and recognition of their education, skills and qualifications is like totally linked to their social clout and equal citizenship and their vibe with the community they live in, ya know? Whether the cultural cap that migrants bring from their home country to the new country slaps or not, this study argues that migrant workers shouldn't be vibing with inequality or dealing with their education, skills, and knowledge being slept on, even if they got mad credentials. Rather, they deserve protection and recognition of their resources and should have as equal right to flex their cultural clout as the majority peeps in their society; otherwise there is no vibe.