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Drawing on comparative country case studies, this book explores student mobility in Europe, incorporating original theoretical perspectives to explain how mobility happens and new empirical evidence to illustrate how students become mobile within their present educational and future working lives.

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1. Introduction 2. Mobile Being 3. Becoming Mobile 4. The Mobility Promise 5. A Mobile Future?

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"Cairns´ final examination of institutionalised mobility [is] a particular stand out for me. His deft précis of the EU policy initiatives to increase inter-country student mobility [is] sharp and on-point." - Mark Holton, Children´s Geographies

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David Cairns is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. He has over 50 international publications to date including articles in International Migration, British Journal of Sociology of Education and The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

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