Reconciling habitus through third spaces: how do Roma and non-Roma first-in-family graduates negotiate the costs of social mobility in Hungary?

Bereményi, Ábel and Durst, Judit and Nyírő, Zsanna (2023) Reconciling habitus through third spaces: how do Roma and non-Roma first-in-family graduates negotiate the costs of social mobility in Hungary? COMPARE: A JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION. ISSN 0305-7925 (In Press)

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Abstract

This article explores how first-in-family-graduate Roma and nonRoma Hungarians from the working-class experience educationdriven social mobility and reconcile the dislocation of their primaryhabitus due to changing class through transiting a ‘third space’. Drawing on Bhabha’s and bell hooks’ development of this concept, we aim to unpack the different ways how class-changers, in moving between the social milieu of their origin and their destination, occupy a unique position between two fields. Their social position is described as one of social navigators with a bridging potential between social classes. We also investigate what part higher education plays in this distinct form of changing class and becoming incorporated into middle-class society through a third space for those academic high achievers who come from working-class families. Contrasting the experience of Roma with non-Roma firstgeneration graduates in Hungary, we draw attention to the different opportunities of reconciling conflicting class-related habitus along ethno-racial lines.

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