The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Mobility and Educational Migration

This handbook provides an overview of developments in the youth mobility and migration research field, with specific emphasis on movement for education, work and training purposes, encompassing exchanges sponsored by institutions, governments and international agencies, and free movement.

The collection features over 30 theoretically and empirically-based discussions of the meaning and key aspects of various forms of mobility as practiced in contemporary societies, and concludes with an exploration of the costs and benefits of moving abroad to individuals and societies at a time when the viability of free circulation is being called into question.

The geographical scope of the book covers Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas, and takes into account socio-economic and regional inequalities, as well as recent developments such as the refugee crisis, Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. The book integrates the fields of youth mobility and migration studies, creating opportunities for the establishment of a new paradigm for understanding the spatial circulation of youth and young adults in the twenty-first century.

1.Introduction: The Intermittency of Youth Migration Part I 2.Introducing Youth Mobility and Migration 3.Mobility Becoming Migration: Understanding Youth Spatiality in the Twenty-First Century 4.Migration Decision-Making, Mobility Capital and Reflexive Learning 5.Inherited Dreams of ‘the West’: Eastern European Students’ Paths to Denmark 6.Unpacking the Mobility Capacities and Imperatives of the ‘Global Generation’ 7.Why Student Mobility Does Not Automatically Lead to Better Understanding: Reflections on the Concept of Intercultural Learning Part II 8.Free Movement in Education 9.Youth Educational Mobility: The Start of Intellectual Migration 10.Understanding Educational Migration from Greece to the UK in Times of Crisis 11.Transnational Mobility, Education and Social Positioning between Brazil and Germany 12.Refugees’ Access to Higher Education in Italy: An Opportunity Lost for the ‘Lost Generation 13.After Mobility: The Long-Term Impact of Study Abroad on Professional Teacher Behaviour 14.Dispositives of Internationalization in Brazilian Science: The Unified Postgraduate Examination in Physics Part III 15.Institutionalized Mobility Inside and Outside Erasmus 16.Erasmus at 30: Institutional Mobility at Higher Education in Perspective 17.Learning in Transition: Erasmus+ as an Opportunity for Internationalization 18.Mobility and Participation: The Intertwined Movement of Youth and Ideas 19.The Super-Mobile Student: Global Educational Trajectories in Erasmus Mundus 20.Educational Mobility of South African Youth: Insights from Erasmus Mundus Action 2 21.Intra-regional Academic Mobility in Central Asia: The OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 22.South–South Student Mobility: International Students from Portuguese-Speaking Africa in Brazil 23.Mobile and Immobile Students’ Characteristics and Programme Choices 24.Identity Challenges and Pedagogical Consequences: International Students in Higher Education Pathway Programmes in Australia Part IV 25.Working towards Mobility 26.Beyond Skills: Facets of Mobility in Romania’s Vocational Education and Training 27.Using Cross-border Mobility in Vocational Education and Training in the Greater Region SaarLorLux 28.Vocational Learning Abroad: The Case of German VET Mobility 29.Youth as Temporary Workers Abroad: The Experiences of Australia, Canada and New Zealand 30.International Work Placements: Developing Intercultural Skills? 31.Abroad Forever? Embedding Spatial Mobility in Academic Work Trajectories in Italy 32.Italian Youth and the Experience of Highly Qualified Migration to the United Kingdom Part V 33.Mobility at the Margins 34.Mobility Choices in Post-Soviet States: How the EU Attracts Youth in Its Shared Neighbourhood with Russia 35.From Forced Migration to Mobility: Dreaming of Home Within ‘Rooted Mobilities’ 36.‘I was not prepared to go to Spain’: Work Mobility of Young People at the Margins in Portugal 37.Crossing the Line: Current and Future Challenges in Youth Mobility 38.Youth Mobility, Mental Health and Risky Behaviours 39.Rethinking the Value(s) of Short-Term Youth Mobility: Neoliberal Ideals and Counterhegemonic Possibilities 40.A Wonderful But Uncertain Time: Youth Transitions of Erasmus Students and Lisbon’s Housing Crisis 41.Conclusion: Youth Migration in the Age of Pandemic Immobility

David Cairns is Principal Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, ISCTE-University of Lisbon, Portugal.