Mobility Education and Life Trajectories

<p>Migration for educational purposes once the privilege of the upper class has become a global mass phenomenon in recent years. This volume examines within different cultural and historical contexts the close relationship between migration education and social mobility. Adopting the perspective that education includes a broad range of formative experiences the chapters explore different educational trajectories and the local regional and transnational relations in which they are embedded. Three key issues emerge from the analyses: firstly the central role of temporal aspects in terms of both the overall historical conditions and the specific biographical circumstances shaping educational opportunities; secondly the complex agendas informing individuals’ migration and the adjustment of these agendas in the light of the vagaries of migrant life; and thirdly the importance of migrants’ self-perception as ‘educated persons’ and the invention of new identities and the maintaining of old identities that this involves. This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. </i></p>