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Between Habitus and Integration: The Role of the Colombian Embassy in Denmark in the Migratory Experience of Colombians
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3).
2025 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 28 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

When I visited Colombia a year ago, I remembered all the differences and gaps between our social classes - and this shook my concerns as both student and researcher. I wanted to understand if these inequities or disproportionate privileges, depending on where we're born in Colombia, still manifest when we leave the country. That's why I chose to speak primarily from a Bourdieusian perspective about the cultural capital we carry as Colombians, and how it must hybridize if we want to fully immerse ourselves in a new society with structures that are foreign to us. I sought to understand how, in a country as geographically and culturally distant as Denmark, we must confront everything we grew up knowing and adapt to new ways of understanding the world - while understanding that the world now sees us differently. I wanted to grasp how it feels to stop being defined by a social stratum and become defined by our passport instead. Similarly, I wanted to comprehend whether that Colombian state - which sometimes privileges some and makes others invisible - acts similarly toward those of us who no longer live in the coffee country, and whether we as Colombians - both state and people - can create more inclusive communities that don't just reinforce our Colombian identity but also support us without distinctions of social class, ethnicity, creed, sexual orientation or race. Because in the end, we all still feel as Colombian as a six o'clock morning coffee in Cocora Valley.

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2025. , p. 84
Keywords [en]
cultural capital, integration, habitus, hybrid-habitus, migration
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Humanities and the Arts Sociology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-79523OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-79523DiVA, id: diva2:1998817
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KS K3 Culture and Change
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2025-08-22, K3, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, Malmö, 17:22 (English)
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