ABSTRACT
This chapter applies the framework of habitus to the comparative case study of white Polish and predominantly white South African migrants living in the United Kingdom (UK). The concept of habitus can be read as an attempt on Bourdieus part to enable a sociological account that facilitated understanding of the complex and multifaceted interplay between actors and structures. Although habitus is a learned process, the majority of people tend most of the time to perceive themselves and their own social world and circles as the natural order of things, which is taken more or less for granted. This is a process of the reproduction of actors social position. Through the comparative case study of white South African and Polish migrants in the UK, one have shown that the habitus is still historically specific and connected to a particular cultural, political and economic context that of migrants respective home societies.
