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VIRTUAL EVENT: Youth mobility in the UK
25 May 2021, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
This is the fourth webinar in the youth mobility series and will focus on student mobility within the UK and youth attitudes towards international mobility (their own and that of others).
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Rachel Benchekroun
Presentations
Spatial structures of student mobility: Social, economic and ethnic ‘geometries of power'
Dr Michael Donnelly (University of Bath) and Dr Sol Gamsu (University of Durham) will discuss how university students’ geographic movements within the UK reproduce and produce social, economic, racial and ethnic divisions.
Mobility for me but not for Others: the contradictory cosmopolitan practices of contemporary White British youth
Dr Avril Keating (UCL Institute of Education) will examine how young White British youth talk about international mobility and argues that these attitudes are fraught with contradictions that stem from the mixed messages young people receive about mobility, migration, multiculturalism, citizenship and individualism.
CGY Youth Mobility seminar series
The Centre for Global Youth (CGY) is hosting a series of webinars to explore youth mobility practices in different parts of the world. Over 5 weeks in May and June, the seminars will examine how and why young people become mobile, drawing on the experience of young people in India, China, Australia and the UK.
The events will consider internal mobility, international students, service workers, graduates, and young unaccompanied asylum seekers.
Links
- Centre for Global Youth blog: Youth mobility webinar series week 4: UK
- Tweet with #YouthMobilities
- Centre for Global Youth
- Department of Education, Practice and Society
Image: Alexis Brown via Unsplash
About the Speakers
Dr Michael Donnelly
Associate Professor at the University of Bath
Michael is interested in the sociology of education, especially links between education and social stratification, inequality and wider societal divisions.
His current research addresses education and indigeneity, examining the ‘collectivising’ and ‘individualising’ discourses present within the Mexican higher education system (funded by ESRC).
More about Dr Michael DonnellyDr Sol Gamsu
Assistant Professor at the University of Durham
Sol is a sociologist and a geographer of education with a strong commitment to the politics of education and envisaging alternative futures for education and society more broadly.
He is interested in how structures and experiences of power and inequality in education are reproduced over time and through different local and regional geographies.
More about Dr Sol GamsuDr Avril Keating
Director of the Centre for Global Youth and Associate Professor of Comparative Social Science at the UCL Institute of Education
Avril is a sociologist of youth and citizenship and her current research focuses on:
- youth attitudes towards cultural Others and what this tells us about who gets to be a citizen in contemporary Britain
- the relationship between place, resources, and mobility aspirations for young people growing up in coastal towns.
Avril also has a long-standing interest in citizenship education, youth civic engagement and the Europeanisation of citizenship education policy.
More about Dr Avril Keating