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Political habitus in cross-border student migration: a longitudinal study of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong and beyond

Xu, Cora Lingling

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Dr Cora Xu lingling.xu@durham.ac.uk
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Abstract

This paper contributes to the understanding of how shifting time, space and subject positions can impact on the political habitus of border-crossing students. Employing in-depth interview data from a longitudinal project involving 31 mainland Chinese students whose higher education journeys converged in Hong Kong, it argues that it is often unintended outcomes such as the development of a political habitus that can have lasting effects on students’ longer term life trajectories. This paper’s systematic exposition of these students’ political habitus formation redresses Bourdieu’s relative neglect of the shaping of the political habitus of ‘non-professional’ political agents, in contrast to his emphasis on that of the ‘professionals’, such as politicians. This paper also moves beyond existing literature’s focus on social agents’ experiences in static and unified political fields at specific times by foregrounding the experiences of these mainland Chinese students moving across conflictual political fields over time.

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Xu, C. L. (2018). Political habitus in cross-border student migration: a longitudinal study of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong and beyond. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 27(2-3), 255-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2017.1415768

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 7, 2017
Online Publication Date Jun 5, 2018
Publication Date 2018
Deposit Date Aug 26, 2020
Publicly Available Date Aug 27, 2020
Journal International Studies in Sociology of Education
Print ISSN 0962-0214
Electronic ISSN 1747-5066
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 27
Issue 2-3
Pages 255-270
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2017.1415768
Related Public URLs https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/4291/

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