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Migrant, Habitus
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14 July 2026

Every migrant journey reshapes both the people undergoing it and the places it encounters.
This book explores how Lebanese-Australians navigate settlement as they rework the resources they bring and acquire new ones. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research across generations, it highlights the cultural, temporal and generational dimensions of migration, showing how everyday practices shape belonging, identity and social opportunity. The book also extends Bourdieusian theory, emphasizing cultural complexity and the ‘pedagogic imperative.’
This is essential reading for sociologists, migration scholars and anyone interested in how migration transforms lives, communities and social fields.
‘A groundbreaking Bourdieusian analysis of Lebanese migration, revealing how settling creates tormented identities through embodied struggle, temporal trajectories and spatial transformation in multicultural Australia.’ Dalia Abdelhady, Lund University
Greg Noble is Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia.
Paul Tabar is founding Director of the Institute for Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University, Beirut and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia.
Introduction
1. Migrating Bourdieu: Rethinking the Settling Process
2. Learning to Be Lebanese (Differently)
3. The Career of the Migrant
4. Home Enough
5. Migrating Capitals
6. Whose Field?
Conclusion