Inheriting or re-structuring habitus/capital? Chinese migrant children in the urban field of cultural reproduction

How does cultural capital influence the school choice of rural and urban migrant families in Nanjing, China? Evidence from a survey study

“…Scholars sought conceptual frameworks to logically explain individual-context interrelationships as a result of disparity in the education of rural-urban migration pupils (Joy et al, 2020;Mu et al, 2019). Bourdieu's notions of capital and field have been used to explain migration and education issues in a number of studies (Mu et al, 2019;Yu, 2018Yu, , 2020. Bourdieu (1978) demonstrated that the value of capital is determined by the particular field in which it is deployed, and the strategy by which actors deploy their capital is determined by the actor's position in that field.…”

“…The adoption of various levels of policy in reference to their school entrance and school procedure has established a policy field for rural-urban migrant students and their parents (Yu, 2018(Yu, , 2020. To compete for a better school place, a better schooling experience, and a better education result for their children, each rural-urban migrant family needs to deploy their various types of capital in the policy field (Bathmaker, 2015).…”