ERIC Number: EJ1291766
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1467-5986
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Migrant Young People's Narratives of Aspirations: The Role of Migrant Positionality, Habitus and Capitals
Intercultural Education, v32 n1 p32-45 2021
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.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Discourse Analysis, Futures (of Society), Academic Aspiration, Occupational Aspiration, Social Capital, Student Attitudes, Cultural Capital, Ethnic Groups, Self Concept, Secondary School Students, Family Role, Role Models
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Greece
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