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The hypermobile and the rest: capital conversion and inclusion/exclusion in an emerging student migration in China

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The rise of transnational and transcity education consumption suggests the increasingly important role of the capability to move in order to access quality schooling. Studies have examined the multidimensional inequalities underlying translocal education consumption. However, the role of mobility itself is not sufficiently understood. Two questions are rarely asked: (1) How is the capability to move acquired and practised to bring about translocal schooling consumption? and (2) How does the disparity in the capability to move restructure the established intergenerational capital transmission mechanism conceptualized by Bourdieu? This paper answers by theorizing a mobility-mediated, education-based intergenerational capital transmission mechanism. This framework is built upon a theoretical engagement among John Urry, Pierre Bourdieu, and Neil Smith. We substantiate this framework by examining a student migration regime in Sichuan, China. Attention is paid to the inclusion/exclusion of hypermobility-based schooling consumption regime. Empirical analysis is performed by the comparison of two social groups: (a) the middle-class households who employ mobility to chase after the footloose prime schooling resources and thus materialize their class reproduction strategy and (b) the immobile remainder who are stuck in a location deprived of quality schooling resources.

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  • Mengzhu Zhang, 2024. "The hypermobile and the rest: capital conversion and inclusion/exclusion in an emerging student migration in China," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(3), pages 463-485, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:19:y:2024:i:3:p:463-485
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2263177
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