The analysis of populations under spatial mobility often ignores the strength of the situation they live in. Despite of the structural differences that singularize them, the displacement situation leads those actors to share a number of characteristics in everyday life that the author has christened a "migrant'shabitus", a second nature that functions as a source of the resources needed to manage the new context. This concept, to which the author still gives an exploratory status, derives from the ethnographic research she has conducted on exiles, migrants and international students, as well as of an extended sociological literature on these groups; and intends to explain the changes these actors go under in a diachronic perspective.
situation; spatial mobility; everyday life; migrant's habitus; sociological theory