There are two connotations within the immigration process:motivation of migration and adaptation.Borrowing from the cultural sociology perspective,this article studies the role of culture in immigration motivation and the adaptation into the immigration place.Based on the youth who stayed in Hong Kong for job after graduation,it presents the functions of culture on those youth’s motivation to stay in Hong Kong and their adaptation to HK society.On one hand,“Hong Kong”is treated as a specific cultural space,which provides motivation for those...