Capturing agency in different educational settings. A comparative study on youth perceptions of mobility-framing structures

Tabea Schlimbach, Jan Skrobanek, Emilia Kmiotek-Meier and Volha Vysotskaya
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Tabea Schlimbach: German Youth Institute, Germany
Jan Skrobanek: University of Bergen, Norway
Emilia Kmiotek-Meier: University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Volha Vysotskaya: University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Migration Letters, 2019, vol. 16, issue 1, 15-29

Abstract: The geographical mobility of young Europeans takes place within institutional realms that frame young people´s educational and vocational situations. These institutional framings provide unequal preconditions for going abroad. Starting from an action-oriented theoretical approach, the aim of this work was to explore young people´s international moves within different mobility settings. Based on 52 qualitative interviews with mobile youth from three mobility fields in three countries (students from Luxembourg, employees in Norway and Luxembourg and apprentices from Germany), the dynamic concept of context-sensitive mobility-related modes of action (MRMA) was developed. The applied analytic framework reflects the fact that individual perceptions and actions relating to going abroad differ greatly according to the young people’s specific current educational/vocational situations. Moreover, the comparative approach sheds light on different dimensions of inequality caused by these framing systems.

Keywords: agency; structure; geographical mobility; inequality; student mobility; apprenticeship mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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