43 research outputs found

    Designing the (Most) Mobile University: The Centrality of International Student Mobility in Luxembourg’s Higher Education Policy Discourse

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    The nexus of national educational and migration policies and international student mobility (ISM) in Europe becomes strikingly visible in Luxembourg. ISM is central for higher education policy in Luxembourg, but also for larger questions of social integration and economic development. Based on a discourse analysis of the political debates surrounding the foundation of the University of Luxembourg in 2003, we analyze how and why ISM became a cornerstone of higher education policy in Luxembourg. Our findings reveal that, on the one hand, incoming student mobility — and the establishment of an international research university — was and is seen as a means of competing for the best and brightest, regionally and globally, and of securing human resources to satisfy a booming, internationalized labor market. On the other hand, outgoing student mobility has traditionally been viewed as the main mechanism to establish international networks across Europe and foster elites back home. Both incoming and outgoing mobility are thought necessary to establish and maintain a competitive and sustainable knowledge economy. Reconstructing the underlying rationales behind the support for ISM as the key to higher education policy, we explain why Luxembourg currently has the highest proportion of ISM worldwide

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

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    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

    Wie? Warum? Oder warum nicht? MobilitĂ€tsfelder sowie Motivationen und Barrieren für JugendmobilitĂ€t in Europa

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    Auslandserfahrungen sind nicht nur eine Möglichkeit, auf kulturelle Entdeckungsreise zu gehen. Sie gelten auch als Chance fĂŒr junge Menschen, zu lernen und sich persönlich und beruflich weiterzuentwickeln. Entsprechend wird JugendmobilitĂ€t in der Jugendarbeit große Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Auch die LĂ€nder, die die Jugendlichen entsenden oder aufnehmen, können dabei profitieren – aber auf unterschiedliche Weise. Zu welchem Zweck gehen junge Menschen ins Ausland? Was motiviert sie dabei? Welche Barrieren mĂŒssen sie dafĂŒr ĂŒberwinden? Welche Rolle spielt der familiĂ€re Bildungshintergrund der Jugendlichen? Diese Fragen werden mit Fokus auf lĂ€nderspezifische Unterschiede auf der Datenbasis des europĂ€ischen Forschungsprojekts MOVE untersucht, in das Wissenschaftler(innen) aus sechs europĂ€ischen LĂ€ndern involviert waren. Die Grundlage bildet zunĂ€chst eine LĂ€ndertypologie, die Humankapitalbewegungen durch Auslandsaufenthalte abbildet, welche je nach MobilitĂ€tsfeld eher dem Sende- oder EmpfĂ€ngerland zugutekommen. Sie weist europĂ€ische LĂ€nder vier Typen zu: MobilitĂ€tsförderern, MobilitĂ€tsverlierern, MobilitĂ€tsgewinnern und MobilitĂ€tsverwertern. Besonders erstere und letztere sind gut fĂŒr eine kontrastierende, lĂ€ndervergleichende Betrachtung geeignet. MobilitĂ€tsförderer sind LĂ€nder, deren junge Menschen im europĂ€ischen Ausland arbeiten, die aber selbst kein wichtiges Zielland fĂŒr europĂ€ische Jugendliche sind (z.B. Ungarn und RumĂ€nien). MobilitĂ€tsverwerter sind attraktive ZiellĂ€nder sowohl fĂŒr kurz- als auch langfristige MobilitĂ€ten und weisen damit bezĂŒglich der Generierung und Verwertung von Humankapital ein ausgeglichenes Konto auf (z.B. Norwegen, Luxemburg und Deutschland). In einem kontrastierenden Vergleich werden Motivationen und Barrieren fĂŒr Auslandsaufenthalte im Zusammenhang mit dem Bildungshintergrund junger Menschen aus MobilitĂ€tsförder- und MobilitĂ€tsverwerterlĂ€ndern analysiert. HierfĂŒr werden die Individualdaten eines Onlinesurveys mit 18-29-JĂ€hrigen (N=4.719) aus Deutschland, Luxemburg, Norwegen, Ungarn und RumĂ€nien den beiden LĂ€ndertypen zugeordnet und verglichen

    Why is it so hard? And for whom? Obstacles to intra-European mobility

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    Even though intra-European youth mobility is valued as a boost for personal and professional development, few opt for it. While obstacles preventing young people to become mobile have been discussed broadly, less attention has been paid to the obstacles for the youth who are already on the move. We offer this rare perspective in regard to intra-European mobility. We focus on youth in four types: pupil mobility, vocational (education and training) mobility, higher education student (degree and credit) mobility and employment mobility, in six countries: Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Norway, Romania and Spain. Our analysis, based on qualitative (140 interviews) and quantitative (N=1.682) data, reveals that the perceived obstacles vary between the mobility types, with the greatest divergence between the educational and work-related mobilities. Obstacles such as lack of financial resources and guidance, the perceived incompatibility of institutional regulations within Europe, are shared by all mobile youth
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