This article explores the formation of migrant agency by scrutinizing the decision-making processes of owner-operator truckers. Drawing on qualitative data collected among male migrants from Turkey in the US, the main finding is that migrant truckers, by making various decisions at the turning points of their career, choose one of three trucking segments and decide the number of trucks that they own. To understand the differentiated ways agency is formed, the article utilizes forms-of-capital analysis, which reveals how truckers mobilize combinations of social, economic and cultural forms of capital. The study conceptually contributes to the scholarship on migrant entrepreneurship by developing the concept of ongoing agency that combines the temporal aspects of migrant agency with the forms-of-capital analysis. This concept is used to understand how migrant truckers reconfigure their agency as they move between segments and ownership statutes over time.

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生存主义卡车司机的不同创业路径：移民在美国卡车运输中的持续代理


本文通过审视自营卡车司机的决策过程，探讨了移民代理的形成。根据在美国土耳其男性移民中收集的定性数据，主要发现是，移民卡车司机通过在职业转折点做出各种决定，选择三个卡车运输领域之一，并决定他们拥有的卡车数量。为了理解代理形成的不同方式，本文采用了资本形式分析，揭示了卡车司机如何调动社会、经济和文化资本形式的组合。该研究通过发展持续代理的概念，将移民代理的时间方面与资本形式分析相结合，从概念上为移民创业奖学金做出了贡献。这个概念用于理解移民卡车司机随着时间的推移在细分市场和所有权法规之间流动时如何重新配置​​他们的机构。