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Migrant Young People's Narratives of Aspirations: The Role of Migrant Positionality, Habitus and Capitals
- Source :
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Intercultural Education . 2021 32(1):32-45. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in Greece, the paper examines migrant young peoples' narratives of educational and occupational aspirations. The paper employs Bourdieu's theoretical framework to conceptualise aspirations as a product of "habitus" encompassing embodied dispositions shaped in the course of individual and familial trajectories in transnational social fields. Narrative-discursive analysis of in-depth interviews unpacks the differing degree in which migrant people's positionality and mobilisation of capitals mediate their aspirations, as the latter reflect their emerging transnational habitus and their pragmatic evaluations of their interlinked past, present and future.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1467-5986
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Intercultural Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1291766
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14675986.2020.1841540