Mobile Chinese students navigating between fields: (Trans)forming habitus in transnational articulation programmes?

Dai, Kun; Lingard, Bob; Musofer, Reshma Parveen

doi:10.1080/00131857.2019.1689813

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“…But, for some categories of migrants their cultural capital -especially institutional cultural capital -is not valued in the host country, making diffi cult their path in the host societies and causing them a disqualifi cation (Akua-Sakyiwah, 2016). As a result, it is possible to observe in some studies (Dhungel, 2019;Dai, Lingard, & Musofer, 2020) of this group, that the habitus related to education topic can be a cleft habitus as Bourdieu (Bourdieu, 2007) calls it. It is the habitus that results from experiences that challenge the original habitus and change dispositions.…”

Section: Return Migra Onmentioning

confidence: 98%

The concept of habitus in migration studies. A systematic literature review

Radogna¹

2022

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The concept of habitus has been used to investigate a wide range of social phenomena. Pierre Bourdieu himself applied it to different fields, such as the analysis of taste and lifestyle (Bourdieu, 2000), gender relations (Bourdieu, 2001), the field of literature production (Bourdieu, 1996), the educational system and the reproduction of inequalities (Bourdieu, & Passeron, 1979), to mention a few. However, the concept of habitus has only recently been applied to investigate migration phenomena. This systematic literature review aims to investigate the use of the concept of habitus in migration theory through the analysis of 38 studies selected in two scientific databases. In the first part, after the presentation of the concept of habitus and the description of methodological selection procedure, I will make a short overview of the use of the aforementioned concept applied to migration phenomena, using the following criteria: the year of publication, national contexts, categories of migrants. Then, I will proceed to the analysis following the meta-ethnography methodology.

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Section: Return Migra Onmentioning

confidence: 98%

The concept of habitus in migration studies. A systematic literature review

Radogna¹

2022

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“…Mu 2019; Yu 2019) and mobile students (e.g. Dai, Lingard, and Musofer 2019;Wang 2020). Few, however, have taken Bourdieu's theoretical insights beyond considerations of class.…”

Section: Symbolic Violence Cultural Arbitrary Theory Of Practice and Habitusmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘They are bad seeds’: stereotyping habitus in Chinese VET colleges

Geng

2021

British Journal of Sociology of Education

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VET colleges in China are positioned at the bottom of the educational hierarchy, absorbing the 'left-over' students with 'less desirable' academic records. VET students are stereotyped as 'stupid and lazy' youths suffering considerable prejudice in Chinese society. Drawing on Bourdieu's theoretical insights, this paper investigates the experiences of students in VET colleges and their teachers' perspectives on them. I explore how teachers' stereotyping habitus is practised in VET colleges and how it affects their students' learning experiences. The findings demonstrate that the teachers' pedagogic practices in class impose a designated cultural arbitrary via a hidden curriculum. The students adopted 'passing time' attitudes in class as a response to their teachers' 'misrecognition' . The paper examines how a system of unequal power relations in Chinese VET college is maintained and legitimised, which contributes to the 'transmission' and reproduction of the very culture that has shaped the standing of VET in Chinese society.

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“…In the cross-cultural setting, Bourdieu himself utilized the experiences of an Algerian migrant family in France to illustrate habitus–field mismatch, as the first-generation migrants’ life and practices in Algeria could no longer be maintained in Paris, and the migrants did not acquire the resources to claim a desirable position in the new field (Bourdieu, 1999). Moreover, Dai and his colleagues (2020) applied Bourdieu’s concepts to examine Chinese students’ experiences in a transnational education program. They reported students’ encounters with the field–habitus dissonance and argued this could produce transformation of the habitus, which might lead to better adjustments to the logics of the new field.…”

Section: Habitus–field Mismatch and False Anticipationmentioning

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False Anticipation and Misfits in a Cross-Cultural Setting: International Scholars Working in Chinese Universities

Chen

Zhu

2020

Journal of Studies in International Education

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As the rapid development of internationalization in Chinese higher education, the number and scale of international scholars working in China has significantly increased. However, few studies have focused on international scholars’ cross-cultural encounters in the Chinese academic context. Based on 21 in-depth interviews, this article investigates international scholars’ subjective experiences in a cross-cultural setting through Bourdieu’s conceptual lens. After presenting an overview of participants’ major motivations for working in China, we find their vague and idealistic expectations engendered “false anticipation” of their possible career future in China, which left some of them unprepared to experience a sense of misfit when entering the new field of Chinese academia. Moreover, we identify the dual habitus–field disjunctures emerging from participants’ perceptions of misfit in the cross-cultural scenario, namely explicit disjuncture and implicit disjuncture, which reveal the underlying reasons for mismatch between international scholars’ previously generated habitus and the new field of Chinese universities.

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Mobile Chinese students navigating between fields: (Trans)forming habitus in transnational articulation programmes?

Cited by 27 publications

References 30 publications

The concept of habitus in migration studies. A systematic literature review

The concept of habitus in migration studies. A systematic literature review

‘They are bad seeds’: stereotyping habitus in Chinese VET colleges

False Anticipation and Misfits in a Cross-Cultural Setting: International Scholars Working in Chinese Universities

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