Conference Papers Year : 2024

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

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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hal-04502572 , version 1 (13-03-2024)

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Maria Carolina Zanette, Lorena Bezerra de Souza Matos, Jessica Sasso Lopes. On Whiteness and in-betweenness: Reflections of highly skilled Brazilian immigrants in France. 40th EGOS Colloquium, Jul 2024, Milan (Italie), Italy. ⟨hal-04502572⟩
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