ABSTRACT

In this article, we discuss how class and migrant background intersect when students discuss their studies in general upper secondary education and their aspirations in university admission. We focus on the discussed social inequalities in student admission to one of the elite fields, medicine, in eight ethnographic interviews with students and fieldnotes concerning observations in two general upper secondary schools during an academic year. Admission to university-level medical education locally in Finland was constructed ‘impossible for me’ due to its high competitiveness. The symbolic violence in the self-perception and the misrecognition of capital in relation to interviewees’ multilingual background did not function as mobilisable capital in the national admission process. Admission becomes a platform for misrecognition of cultural and economic capital and for educational exclusion of working-class young people from migrant backgrounds from the medical profession. This happens on the surface in public and private education and health care even in a tuition-fee-free education system.

摘要

在这篇文章中，我们讨论了当学生讨论他们在普通高中教育的学习和他们对大学录取的愿望时，阶级和移民背景如何交叉。我们通过对学生的 8 次人种学访谈和关于一学年在两所普通高中的观察的实地笔记，重点讨论了在学生进入医学这一精英领域时所讨论的社会不平等现象。由于竞争激烈，在芬兰当地接受大学水平的医学教育“对我来说是不可能的”。自我认知中的象征性暴力和与受访者多语言背景相关的资本误认在国家录取过程中并未发挥可动员资本的作用。入学成为对文化和经济资本的错误认识，以及对具有医学专业移民背景的工薪阶层年轻人进行教育排斥的平台。即使在免学费教育系统中，这种情况也发生在公立和私立教育和医疗保健的表面上。