Youth Transitions, International Student Mobility and Spatial Reflexivity - Being Mobile?

Drawing on comparative country case studies, this book explores student mobility in Europe, incorporating original theoretical perspectives to explain how mobility happens and new empirical evidence to illustrate how students become mobile within their present educational and future working lives.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Mobile Being 3. Becoming Mobile 4. The Mobility Promise 5. A Mobile Future?

About the author

David Cairns is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. He has over 50 international publications to date including articles in International Migration, British Journal of Sociology of Education and The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Summary

Drawing on comparative country case studies, this book explores student mobility in Europe, incorporating original theoretical perspectives to explain how mobility happens and new empirical evidence to illustrate how students become mobile within their present educational and future working lives.

Additional text

"Cairns' final examination of institutionalised mobility [is] a particular stand out for me. His deft précis of the EU policy initiatives to increase inter-country student mobility [is] sharp and on-point." - Mark Holton, Children's Geographies

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"Cairns' final examination of institutionalised mobility [is] a particular stand out for me. His deft précis of the EU policy initiatives to increase inter-country student mobility [is] sharp and on-point." - Mark Holton, Children's Geographies

Product details

• Authors: D Cairns, D. Cairns
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349482016
• ISBN: 978-1-349-48201-6
• No. of pages: 149
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 9 mm x 216 mm
• Illustrations: XII, 149 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; B, Sociology of Education, Education, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Education, general, higher education, Youth Culture, Social research & statistics, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Educational sociology, Human Geography, Age groups: adolescents, Youth—Social life and customs, Education and sociology, Palgrave Education Collection