...This initial chapter takes Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence as its theoretical starting point and considers French migrants’ uneasy relationship with the homeland. Based on respondents’ retrospective accounts of a lack of equality and opportunity in the French social space, together...

...Chapter 5 tends towards a blended ethnographic approach and returns to the theme of education, through the theoretical prism of symbolic violence. The first half of the chapter is dedicated to on-land participants’ attitudes to education in France and London, and the second half compares online...

... with adults and fail to be transformative themselves. elections Sierra Leone participation of youth Truth and Reconciliation Commission youth symbolic violence education Enloe Cynthia transitional justice colonial impacts protest social movements Cynthia Enloe peace processes Sierra Leone...

... communities of practice habituation habitus healthcare homemaking hybridisation hysteresis identity microaggressions ‘mobility capital’ social capital symbolic violence determinacy undeliberate and indeterminacy deliberate embeddedness English language expatriation ‘seed’ France friendship...

... affected by the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. It continues to draw on Bourdieusian theory, particularly hysteresis and symbolic violence concepts, to ascertain if and how participants’ migrancy habitus has been disrupted by ‘Brexit’. With an emphasis on the affective experience of the EU...

... their belonging in common ways. Whether through the contents of their kitchens, their reasons for migrating to London or their evolving attitudes to education and healthcare, participants are seen to embody a distinct form of London-Frenchness. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of ‘symbolic violence...