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Cultural Capital and Acculturation in Migrants

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Mental Health, Mental Illness and Migration

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Abstract

Cultural capital has been described in the context of education and educational achievements. Every individual, no matter which culture they belong to, carry with them cultural capital which consists of three sources – objective (comprising of books, works of arts, music and cultural goods, etc.); embodied (consisting of language, preferences, etc.); and institutionalized (qualifications, educational, and training credentials). Cultural capital, although different from economic, social, educational, and political capitals, may have a degree of overlap. Migrants after migration tend to adjust to the norms and more of the new culture in what has been described as process of acculturation. Results of acculturation can be assimilation, biculturalism, and deculturation. Cultural capital is an essential component of acculturative processes. In this chapter, we hypothesize that strength of their own culture and cultural capital may contribute to acculturative responses. It is likely that some components of cultural capital are more likely to change than others.

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  1. Centre For Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry (KCL), London, UK

    Dinesh Bhugra

  2. Barts NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Cameron Watson

  3. GP Trainee London, London, UK

    Rajiv Wijesuriya

  4. University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy

    Antonio V. Ventriglio

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  1. Institute of Psychiatry King's College London, London, UK

    Dinesh Bhugra

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Ibn Rushd University Psychiatric Centre, Casablanca, Morocco

    Driss Moussaoui

  3. ASL Provinciale di Foggia, Foggia, Napoli, Italy

    Antonio Ventriglio

  4. School of Psychology, University of East London, London, UK

    Rachel Tribe

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Bhugra, D., Watson, C., Wijesuriya, R., Ventriglio, A.V. (2021). Cultural Capital and Acculturation in Migrants. In: Bhugra, D., Moussaoui, D., Ventriglio, A., Tribe, R. (eds) Mental Health, Mental Illness and Migration. Mental Health and Illness Worldwide. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0750-7_39-1

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