‘Mobile Transitions’: Global Youth, Transnational Mobilities and
Transitions to Adulthood
Young people aged 18-30 represent the most mobile cohort across the globe. Much of this mobility is encouraged and facilitated by current migration, education and social policy, reflecting the widely accepted view that transnational mobility will provide youth with enhanced life chances and competitive job skills as they transition to adulthood, as well as benefit the community more broadly through an increasingly cosmopolitan and agile workforce. Yet these assumptions have been largely untested, and research and policy have remained narrowly national in focus. This symposium brings together leading and emerging scholars who are researching transnational youth mobility to explore the impacts of mobility, immobilities and temporalities on young people’s transitions to adulthood. It features a keynote session with Associate Professor Valentina Cuzzocrea, two themed sessions including a special session on the Youth Mobilities, Aspirations & Pathways Project, and a panel on careers outside of academia with recent migration studies PhDs. For more information on the Youth Mobilities, Aspirations & Pathways Project, please visit our website www.ymapproject.org
This hybrid free and catered event is open to all but registration is required. If you plan on attending virtually, please register for this event via Zoom only.
Valentina Cuzzocrea
Valentina Cuzzocrea is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cagliari, Italy. Her expertise gravitates around youth issues. Her last work has appeared in ‘Higher Education’ (with Ewa Krzaklewska), ‘Scuola Democratica’ (with Fabio Bertoni and Giuliana Mandich), ‘Mobilities‘(with David Cairns) and ‘Journal of Youth Studies’. She has co-curated with Bjorn Schiermer and Ben Gook, ‘Forms of Collective Engagement in Youth Transitions: A Global Perspective’, Brill, 2021; ‘Youth Collectivities: Cultures and Objects’, Routledge, 2021, and, with Barbara G. Bello and Yuri Kazepov ‘Italian Youth in International Context’ (Routledge, 2020). She has been chair of the ESA RN 30 Youth and Generation.
Other featured speakers:
Dr Adam Cooper
Professor Catherine Gomes
Associate Professor Marco Alberio
Professor Anita Harris
Professor Loretta Baldassar
Associate Professor Shanthi Robertson