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On Whiteness and in-betweenness: Reflections of highly skilled Brazilian immigrants in France

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  • Maria Carolina Zanette

    (NEOMA - Neoma Business School)

  • Lorena Bezerra de Souza Matos

    (IRG - Institut de Recherche en Gestion - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 - Université Gustave Eiffel)

  • Jessica Sasso Lopes

    (EM - EMLyon Business School)

Abstract

This study examines the experiences and positionalities of three highly skilled Brazilian women in France, who underwent a process of being seen as the Other during immigration, a circumstance, as we understood, of Situated Whiteness. Using intimate and introspective data, we discuss how we become the Other and how our experiences involve attachment to previous symbolic capital to feel less foreign, resulting in a state of in-betweenness. The latter encompasses different dimensions of Otherness and oscillations in one's symbolic capital that balance foreignness and belonging.

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  • Maria Carolina Zanette & Lorena Bezerra de Souza Matos & Jessica Sasso Lopes, 2024. "On Whiteness and in-betweenness: Reflections of highly skilled Brazilian immigrants in France," Post-Print hal-04502572, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04502572
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