On Becoming a Skilled Migrant: Towards Habitus Transformation through Higher Education

Autor/in	Thondhlana, Juliet
Titel	On Becoming a Skilled Migrant: Towards Habitus Transformation through Higher Education
Quelle	In: Educational Review, 72 (2020) 2, S.242-261 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1911
DOI	10.1080/00131911.2018.1505712
Schlagwörter	Job Skills; Labor Market; Immigrants; Employment Qualifications; Cultural Differences; Skilled Workers; Semiskilled Workers; Unskilled Workers; Foreign Countries; Academic Degrees; Cultural Capital; Individual Characteristics; Personality Traits; Educational Attainment; Social Networks; Skilled Occupations; United Kingdom; Zimbabwe + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Produktive Fertigkeit; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Kultureller Unterschied; Facharbeiter; Semi-skilled worker; Semi-skilled workers; Semiskilled worker; Ungelernter Arbeitnehmer; Angelernter Arbeitnehmer; Unskilled worker; Hilfsarbeiter; Ausland; Degree; Degrees; Academic level graduation; Akademischer Grad; Hochschulabschluss; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Individual characteristics; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Fachangestellter; Großbritannien; Simbabwe
Abstract	Research on the labour market experiences of highly skilled migrants has revealed the crippling employability challenges they face in the UK workplace resulting from the devaluation of their homeland qualifications and experiences. Studies on highly skilled migrants from Zimbabwe have revealed how migrants have to resort to semi-skilled and unskilled work for survival. Little is known, however, about the education and labour market experiences of migrants who come into the UK without degrees and subsequently acquire a UK degree. Drawing on Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital and habitus, this article explores the higher education and labour market experiences of this group, as revealed by in-depth interviews with 20 participants. Findings reveal that these participants' habitus is a complex dynamic interaction of diverse (pre)dispositions and strategies which result in them reporting better labour market success than Zimbabwe-degreed migrants. Arguably, their experiences suggest the emergence of a new UK-based habitus for Zimbabwean migrants. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01