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SUMMARY:Emotions and Identity: Migrant Students and Their Butterflies - Co
 ra Lingling Xu\, Faculty of Education
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CONTACT:Lingling Xu
DESCRIPTION:In mainstream sociological research\, the inner world of socia
 l agents tends to be downplayed. In this paper\, I argue however\, that em
 otions play a crucial part in constituting identity construction. Drawing 
 on Reay (2000\, 2005)\, I will set out to discuss how ‘emotional capital
 ’ as well as what I term ‘emotional deficit’ play out in the identit
 y construction endeavours of nine migrant students from mainland China who
  study in a university in Hong Kong. I will briefly rehearse the theoretic
 al roots from which stem my arguments of ‘emotional codes’ and ‘emot
 ional code clash’\; I will then expound my arguments with a range of emp
 irical evidence drawn from an intensive stint of ethnographic exploration 
 in HK between September 2013 and March 2014. 
LOCATION:Room 2S3\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 
 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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