Migration, habitus and symbolic order

Reflecting on a multilingualism project at a German university

Bibliographic Data

ID12928752
AuthorsEmre Arslan (0000-0002-3613-0769, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume10
Issue1
Pages71-91
Publication date2018-01-08
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePower and Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1757-7438 • E-ISSN: 1757-7438
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1757743817749913
OpenAlexW2784053324
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited33

Most of the projects aimed at making migrants more successful in the context of higher education in Germany focus on programmes that introduce the rules and expectations of the university to students and try to change their habitus. This article discusses a multilingualism project conducted in a German university that strives to go beyond this perspective and influence not only the habitus of students, but also that of the university and its symbolic order. The sociology of Pierre Bourdieu provides valuable and powerful concepts, such as habitus, field, symbolic violence and cultural capital, for the analysis of the outcomes of the project. The article suggests that in order to reduce inequality in higher education and to improve outcomes for migrant students, the habitus of the university environment and its symbolic order of language must be changed along with the habitus of students

Context (archaeology · Cultural capital · Field (mathematics · German · Habitus · Linguistics · Multilingualism · Order (exchange · Pedagogy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Symbolic capital · Symbolic power · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Multilingual Education and Policy

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