Adaptación del inmigrante mexicano como un proceso de adquisición de capital cultural: hacia una nueva aproximación teórica a las poblaciones migrantes
Keywords:
Cultural capital, mexican immigantsAbstract
The present paper is part of the dissertation “Mexican Immigrants
in Meatpacking Areas of Kansas: Transition and Acquisition of Cultural Capital”, that applies the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu (1977;1986) to observe the process of adaptation of Mexican immigrants, as a process of acquisition of cultural capital, in which they have to modify or get rid of certain cultural practices from their original cultural
background (habitus), and adopt and adapt elements from the receiving
Anglo culture, thus defining their position within the new social space. The application of such a theoretical framework represented a challenge, since there were no previous applications of the bourdiean model in the study of migrant communities
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