Class, migrant background and misrecognition of capital in the university admission

In this article, we discuss how class and migrant background intersect when students their studies in general upper secondary education aspirations university admission. We focus on the discussed social inequalities student admission to one of elite fields, medicine, eight ethnographic interviews with fieldnotes concerning observations two schools during an academic year. Admission university-level medical locally Finland was constructed ‘impossible for me’ due its high competitiveness. The symbolic violence self-perception misrecognition capital relation interviewees’ multilingual did not function as mobilisable national process. becomes a platform cultural economic educational exclusion working-class young people from backgrounds profession. This happens surface public private health care even tuition-fee-free system.