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

by D. Cairns

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137388506
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/19/2014
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	149
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.70(d)

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"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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