The concept of habitus in migration studies. A systematic literature review
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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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Radogna, R. M. (2022). The concept of habitus in migration studies. A systematic literature review. Sociologie Românească, 20(1), 108-125. https://doi.org/10.33788/sr.20.1.5
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Bourdieu, P. (1977). Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. [Online]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available at doi:10.1017/CBO9780511812507. Accesed on February 12, 2021.
Bourdieu, P. (1996). The rules of art: genesis and structure of the literary field. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Bourdieu, P. (1999). The weight of the world social suffering in contemporary society. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
Bourdieu, P. (2000). Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste. Reprint 1984 edition. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Bourdieu, P. (2001). Masculin domination. Cambridge: Polity press.
Bourdieu, P. (2007). Sketch for a self-analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Bourdieu, P., Passeron, J.-C., Bottomore, T., & Nice, R. (1978). Reproduction. London: SAGE publications Ltd.
Bourdieu, P., & Passeron, J. C. (1979). The inheritors: French students and their relation to culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Brettel, C., & Hollifield, J. F. (2008). Introduction, in C. Brettel, J. F. Hollifield, Migration theory: talking across disciplines, New York: Routledge, 1-36.
Carlson, S., & Schneickert, C. (2021). Habitus in the context of transnationalization: From ‘transnational habitus’ to a configuration of dispositions and fields. The Sociological Review, 69 (5), 1124-1140. doi:10.1177/00380261211021778.
Chao, X., & Ma, X. (2019). Transnational habitus: Educational, bilingual and biliteracy practices of Chinese sojourner families in the U.S., Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 19(3), 399-423. doi: 10.1177/1468798417729551.
Dai, K., Lingard, B., & Musofer, R. P. (2020). Mobile Chinese students navigating between fields: (Trans)forming habitus in transnational articulation programmes?, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52(12), 1329-1340. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2019.1689813.
Dhungel, L. (2019). Educational Migration and Intergenerational Relations: A Study of Educated Returnee Women in Nepal, Journal of international women's studies, 20(7), 16.
Erdal, M. B., & Pawlak, M. (2018). Reproducing, transforming and contesting gender relations and identities through migration and transnational ties, Gender, Place & Culture, 25(6), 882-898. doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2017.1372378.
FitzGerald, D. S. (2014). The Sociology of International Migration, in C. B. Brettell, & J. F. Hollifield, Migration theory: Talking across disciplines. New York: Routledge.
Gu, M. M., & Lee, J. C.-K. (2020). Migrating capital and habitus: the extended space of female transnational migrants, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43(10), 1833-1853. doi: 10.1080/01419870.2019.1671596.
Guarnizo, L. (1997). The Emergence of a Transnational Social Formation and The Mirage of Return Migration Among Dominican Transmigrants, Identities, 4, 281-322.
Hardy, C. (2010). Hysteresis în Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts. Stocksfield: Acumen, 131-148.
Jenkins, R. (1982). Pierre Bourdieu and the Reproduction of Determinism, Sociology, [Online], 16 (2), 270-281. doi:10.1177/0038038582016002008.
Jung, K., Dalton, B., & Willis, J. (2017). The onward migration of North Korean refugees to Australia: in search of cosmopolitan habitus, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 9(3), pp. 1-20. doi: 10.5130/ccs.v9i3.5506.
Kelly, M. (2017). Searching for “success”: Generation, gender and onward migration in the Iranian diaspora, Migration Letters, 14(1), 101-112.
Kelly, P., & Lusis, T. (2006). Migration and the transnational habitus: Evidence from Canada and the Philippines, Environment and Planning A, 38, 831-847. doi: 10.1068/a37214.
Lalander, P., & Herz, M. (2020). Life Planning and Habitus: Opportunities and Constraints Among Unaccompanied Young Refugees in Sweden’, YOUNG, 29(3), pp. 272-287. doi: 10.1177/1103308820966833.
Levy, N., Pisarevskaya, A., & Scholten, P. (2020). Between fragmentation and institutionalisation: the rise of migration studies as a research field, Comparative Migration Studies, 8(1), 24. doi: 10.1186/s40878-020-00180-7.
Lunaček, S. (2020). Beyond occidentalism: Critique of life in Europe by Tuaregs in Niger, Anthropological Notebooks, 25, 5-22.
Marino, S. (2019). Cook it, eat it, Skype it: Mobile media use in re-staging intimate culinary practices among transnational families’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 22(6), pp. 788-803. doi: 10.1177/1367877919850829.
Marshall, J., & Foster, N. (2002). “Between Belonging”: Habitus and the migration experience’, The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien, 46(1), 63-83. doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2002.tb00731.x.
McKay D. (2001). Migration and Masquerade: Gender and Habitus in the Philippines Geography Research Forum. Available at http://raphael.geography.ad.bgu.ac.il/ojs/index.php/GRF/article/view/230. Accessed on October 18, 2020.
McKay, D. (2005). Migration and the Sensuous Geographies of Re-emplacement in the Philippines, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 26 (1-2), 75-91. doi:10.1080/07256860500074052.
Mohyuddin, S. M. and Pick, D. (2016). Career habitus, capital, field and boundaries: Self-initiated expatriate migrant careers of south Asian professionals and managers in Australia, The Journal of Developing Areas, 50(5), 517-524. doi: 10.1353/jda.2016.0026.
Nedelcu, M. (2012). Migrants’ New Transnational Habitus: Rethinking Migration Through a Cosmopolitan Lens in the Digital Age, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 38(9), 1339-1356. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2012.698203.
Noblit, G. W. (2018). Meta-Ethnography. Adaptation and return, in Jr. L. Urrieta, & G. Noblit Cultural Constructions of Identity: Meta-Ethnography and Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Noblit, G. W., & Hare, R. D. (1988). Meta-ethnography: synthesizing qualitative studies. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications.
Nowicka, M. (2015). Bourdieu’s theory of practice in the study of cultural encounters and transnational transfers in migration. Available at https://www.mmg.mpg.de/61298/wp-15-01 Accessed on March 2, 2022.
Nukaga, M. (2013). Planning for a successful return home: Transnational habitus and education strategies among Japanese expatriate mothers in Los Angeles, International Sociology, 28(1), 66-83. doi: 10.1177/0268580912452171.
Roohi, S. (2017). Caste, kinship and the realisation of “American Dream”: high-skilled Telugu migrants in the U.S.A., Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43(16), 2756-2770. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2017.1314598.
Sagmo, T. H. (2015). Return Visits as a Marker of Differentiation in the Social Field, Mobilities, 10(4), 649-665. doi:10.1080/17450101.2014.891860.
Sidhu, R., Yeoh, B., & Chang, S. (2015). A situated analysis of global knowledge networks: capital accumulation strategies of transnationally mobile scientists in Singapore, Higher Education, 69(1), 79-101. doi: 10.1007/s10734-014-9762-9.
Soundy, A., & Heneghan, N. R. (2022). Meta-ethnography. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 15(1), pp. 266-286. doi:10.1080/1750984X.2021.1966822.
Thondhlana, J., Madziva, R., & McGrath, S. (2016). Negotiating Employability: Migrant Capitals and Networking Strategies for Zimbabwean Highly Skilled Migrants in the UK, The Sociological Review, 64(3), 575-592. doi: 10.1111/1467-954X.12373.
Vertovec, S., (2009). Transnationalism. London: Routledge.
Vlase, I., & Croitoru, A. (2019). Nesting self-employment in education, work and family trajectories of Romanian migrant returnees, Current Sociology, 67(5), 778-797. doi:10.1177/0011392119842205.
Wacquant, L. (2016). A Concise Genealogy and Anatomy of Habitus, in The Sociological Review, [Online] 64 (1), 64-72. doi:10.1111/1467-954X.12356.
Waters, J. L. (2007). ‘Roundabout routes and sanctuary schools’: the role of situated educational practices and habitus in the creation of transnational professionals, Global Networks, 7(4), 477-497. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2007.00180.x.
Yalaz, E., & Zapata-Barrero, R. (2018). Mapping the Qualitative Migration Research in Europe: An Exploratory Analysis, in R. Zapata-Barrero, & E. Yalaz, Qualitative Research in European Migration Studies. IMISCOE Research Series. Amsterdam: Springer.
Zechner, M. (2017). Transnational habitus at the time of retirement, Identities, 24(5), 573-589. doi: 10.1080/1070289X.2017.1345543.
Zontini, E., & Reynolds, T. (2018). Mapping the role of “transnational family habitus” in the lives of young people and children’, Global Networks, 18(3), 418-436. doi: 10.1111/glob.12185.