Abstract

Following Bourdieu’s tradition of examining the reproduction of the class structure, this article seeks to fill gaps in research on the class differentiation and educational situation of Polish communities in the UK. The article treats Polish post-accession migration to the UK as a social laboratory. Such an approach facilitates examination of class attitudes toward the education and educational practices of Polish migrants, whose prior experiences with the Polish educational system came to be re-evaluated in a differing national context. The article explains how Polish communities in the UK develop mechanisms for validating their cultural capital and negotiating migrant institutions and networks. The article argues that such processes are able to reorganize the class differentiations of migrant communities and to recontextualize their ‘national capital’ (e.g. Catholicism) within the framework of the receiving society’s educational system. The article is based on forty-five interviews with Polish parents and teachers in the UK.

摘要

本文遵循布迪厄考察阶级结构再生产的传统，旨在填补英国波兰社区阶级分化和教育状况研究的空白。这篇文章将波兰加入英国后的移民视为一个社会实验室。这种方法有助于检查阶级对波兰移民的教育和教育实践的态度，他们以前在波兰教育体系中的经历在不同的国家背景下被重新评估。这篇文章解释了英国的波兰社区如何制定机制来验证他们的文化资本以及与移民机构和网络进行谈判。文章认为，这样的过程能够重组移民社区的阶级分化，并在接收社会的教育系统框架内重新定位他们的“国家资本”（例如天主教）。这篇文章基于对在英国的波兰父母和老师的 45 次采访。