Transborder habitus in a within-country mobility context: A Bourdieusian analysis of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong

Xu, Cora Lingling

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“…In response to the second research question about how the political habitus evolved over time across political fields, building on my earlier work (Xu 2017b), this paper draws on substantial, new empirical materials on the extended period of time and multiple cross-field movements that were critical conditions in facilitating these students' political habitus transformation. It took Miusi nine years and three cross-field movements to realise the symbolic violence that the doxa of the MLC political field had been exercising on her.…”

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“…Therefore, within Miusi's political habitus, there was a fundamental interest in politics. Her universal rejection of politics when in Hong Kong was but a selfprotection mechanism (Xu, 2017b).…”

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“…'mainlanders'), political stances and stereotypes, which may or may not be familiar to them. Meanwhile these students embody political understanding and ideological stances (political habitus) internalised through their political socialisation in the mainland (Xu, 2017b). Therefore, I conceptualise the political field of China as encompassing two sub-fields, that of the mainland China, characterised by a so-called socialist, one-party political sphere, and that of Hong Kong, featured by a semi-democratic, semi-representative and multi-party political arena (Lo, 2008).…”

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

2018

International Studies in Sociology of Education

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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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“…There has also been an emerging trend of bi‐directional flows between Mainland China and other greater China regions, including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan (Gu & Tong, ; Gao, ; Xu, ,b, ,b, ; Lan & Wu, ). While the scope of such bi‐directional flows is less substantial when compared with other internal student mobilities, this type of mobility occupies a strategic position owing to the political and ideological distinctions of these regions.…”

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Educating China on the move: A typology of contemporary Chinese higher education mobilities

Montgomery

2018

Review of Education

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The landscape of global higher education is changing rapidly in response to and alongside the geopolitical and geosocial global transformations, with China and East Asia becoming key players in higher education. As China's economic power and strategic reach grows against a context of global uncertainty, it has become increasingly important to develop a nuanced understanding of Chinese globalisation, not least for its significance to the balance of power relations within and beyond Asia. Higher education provides a powerful lens through which to see how China is globalising and how this might impact on the world. This is manifested in its many established and newer forms of education mobilities. Recognising the lack of research efforts to systematically understand the complexities of contemporary higher education mobilities across China, this paper proposes a typology through a thematic narrative review of more than 250 peer‐reviewed journal articles, government and media documents. This typology of Chinese higher education mobilities reveals three key insights, including (1) a critique on the ‘mobility imperative’ and the role of the Chinese state, (2) a call for more longitudinal and/or retrospective research to facilitate a relational understanding of the fluid nature of higher education mobilities in China, and (3) a note on the urgency of developing a comprehensive theoretical and conceptual tool kit. This article contributes to an updated understanding of the fluid, multiple and multi‐directional nature of contemporary higher education mobilities of China.

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“…Interest in education and mobilities has grown significantly over the past decade or so, where previously only a small number of researchers worked in this area (Brooks & Waters, ; Waters & Brooks, ). Now we see substantive, insightful research on a range of related topics, including mobility for higher education (Brooks, ; Finn, ; Holton & Finn, ; Patiniotis & Holdsworth, ; Xu, ), international student mobilities (Beech, ; Brooks & Waters, ; Findlay, King, Smith, Geddes, & Skeldon, ; Koh, ), child migrants and schooling (Berg, ; Hanna, ), and education and migration in contexts of displacement (Fiddian‐Qasmiyeh, , ; Daskalaki & Leivaditi, ). All of this work speaks to the significance of education for structuring and effecting mobilities and sociocultural differentiation of different kinds, globally.…”

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Rhythms, flows, and structures of cross‐boundary schooling: state power and educational mobilities between Shenzhen and Hong Kong

Waters

Leung

2019

Population Space and Place

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This paper explores the phenomenon of cross-boundary schooling (CBS), where more than 30,000 children undertake a daily, checkpoint-crossing commute to school and back again, over the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border. It elaborates on the notion of "state assemblage" to consider how the power of the state (in this case, both the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong authorities) manifests in CBS and, in particular, how the state attempts to exert control over children's and parents' bodies. This view of CBS contrasts with a sense of "agency" that prevails around discussions of educational mobilities, and we explore this tension here. The paper focuses on two related aspects of CBS-materiality and the role of habit and rhythm in directing, guiding, and cajoling children to conform to an extremely rigid and regimented daily routine. We found that the material structures that make up the border are crucial in enabling CBS to "function" and that notions of rhythm and habit are very useful for understanding how the "flow" of educational mobilities is achieved. At the same time, we considered instances where flow was disrupted, rhythms were changed, and individuals somehow resisted the material constraints of the border.

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Transborder habitus in a within-country mobility context: A Bourdieusian analysis of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong

Cited by 34 publications

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

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

Educating China on the move: A typology of contemporary Chinese higher education mobilities

Rhythms, flows, and structures of cross‐boundary schooling: state power and educational mobilities between Shenzhen and Hong Kong

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