Marginalizált térből átmeneti térbe egy térbeli-társadalmi mobilitási pálya megélt jelentései

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to analyse the range and the lived meanings of the spatial and social mobility trajectory of a Roma woman, who moved from a marginalised and stigmatised part of a village with her family to a more socially heterogeneous urban transitory space (cf. Vigvári 2016; Virág 2018). Drawing on the conceptualisation of the habitus as „social sense of place” (Bourdieu 2002; Hillier‒Rooksby 2002), the analysis tries to grasp the cognitive structures of habitus through the representation of places and the place experience, and its embodied structures through the use of space and the lifestyle (cf. Bourdieu 2000, 2002; Dúll 2014, 2015a, b). The analysis shows that this family history is not simply a spatial mobility trajectory from a marginalized rural space to a relatively better urban transitory space. In fact both, the spatial and the social (occupational) mobility imply gradual, but significant progress. This family has been gradually disembedded from a marginalised rural place; their social and spatial trajectory was catalysed by an instance of micromobility (cf. Porcelli et al. 2014). The spatial trajectory can be traced by the representation of places, while the range of the social mobility can be revealed through changes in occupational mobility. Lived meanings of this mobility can be grasped by the changes in use of space and lifestyle. The spatial trajectory was shaped by the push factors of the village, and by the pull factors of this specific urban transitory space, which has been shaped by diverse effects of urban shrinkage. Consequently, this woman’s and her family’s mobility trajectory can be considered to some extent as a typical mobility path in the given urban transitory space, while it is also atypical since exit opportunities from rural marginalised places are rare. Mobility is “transitory” because it inherently includes movement: this family did not really fit neither the rural nor the urban place. Therefore their upward spatial and social mobility comes with an ambivalent “social sense of place”. All these lived meanings of this ambivalence trigger a self-positioning, but it is also reflected in the gradual changes in their habitus.