Amina’s Story. The university transition of a migratory background student

Journal title MONDI MIGRANTI
Author/s Marco Romito
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/2
Language Italian Pages 22 P. 123-144 File size 221 KB
DOI 10.3280/MM2025-002006
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Starting from the perspective of studies on inequalities in tertiary education (Bathmaker et al., 2016), this contribution mobilises conceptual tools that come partly from the work of Pierre Bourdieu (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1970) and partly from the perspective of intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1989) to investigate the subjective experience of a student with a migrant background, Amina, with a twofold objective:1) to illustrate the processes through which stabilisation of power and privilege is produced and reproduced within and through higher education; 2) to account for the practices through which students negotiate with the university field from a dominated position.

Keywords: second generation students; higher education; educational transitions; Bourdieu; intersectionality.

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Marco Romito, Storia di Amina. La transizione all’università di una ragazza con background migratorio in "MONDI MIGRANTI" 2/2025, pp 123-144, DOI: 10.3280/MM2025-002006