Navigating the London-French Transnational Space: The Losses and Gains of Language as Embodied and Embedded Symbolic Capital

In this article, an interdisciplinary lens is applied to French migrants’ reflections on their everyday language practices, investigating how embodied and embedded language, such as accent London-French translanguaging, serve both in-group out-group symbolic markers in different transnational spaces. Key sociological concepts developed by Pierre Bourdieu are deployed, including field, habitus, hysteresis capital, assess the varying conversion rates of languaging practices across A mixed-methodological analytical approach taken, combining narratives from ethnographic interviews autobiography. Based data gathered, article posits that marker, experienced internalised dialectic: a barrier inclusion/belonging London escape weight originary France. Subsequently, it argues translanguaging functions spontaneous insider vernacular conducive community identity construction postmigration space, but (mis)interpreted exclusionary articulation distinction premigration context. Finally, asks whether participants’ linguistic repertoires, self-identifications spatialities go beyond notion ‘cleft habitus’, or even hybridity, post-structural, third space transcends borders.