Sahizer Samuk Carignani

Journal of International Students 14(1) p. 386-402

How does participation in the Erasmus program affect the future mobility and emigration decisions of highly skilled Italians? After conducting 51 semistructured and in-depth online interviews with highly skilled, spatially mobile, emigrant Italians, we used Atlas.ti to analyze each phrase, word, and context in which “Erasmus” appeared. More than two thirds of the interviewees had experienced the program, a substantial number of whom wanted to work in international environments and achieved their goals. A few returned to the city or country of their first Erasmus mobility experience. We argue that the mobility component of the Erasmus program provided the confidence required to be independent and the insight needed to make international comparisons. It also perpetuates the desire to travel abroad (to become spatially mobile) as participants sought additional international environments after the first Erasmus mobility experience, gaining additional self-confidence as a result.

La cittadinanza europea online p. 1-17

La mobilità degli studenti nelle Università della Toscana

Journal of International Migration and Integration 24 p. 1547-1569

Educational review (Birmingham)

European Journal of Cultural Management and Policy p. 1-12 Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/ejcmp.2022.11105

Cambio: Rivista sulle trasformazioni sociali

SN Social Sciences

Border Crossing 10(1)

Young people involved in geographical mobility face diverse gendered mobility settings and gender inequalities. How do the youth involved in diverse mobility types deal with adverse circumstances caused by gender beliefs and gender prejudices? To answer this question, problem-centred interviews with young people (18-29) are analysed using Grounded Theory. These young people are European citizens and they are involved in five mobility types: higher education, employment, voluntary work, vocational education & training, and entrepreneurship. We apply Emirbayer and Mische’s (1998) categories (iterational, projective and practical-evaluative) to the analysis of gendered mobility narratives as unequal gender perceptions reveal themselves in the context of different types of youth mobility. The analysis allows to see the ways young people reflect on their actions: refusal of gender beliefs, acceptance or rejection of gendered prejudices, individual vs. collective solutions, demand for equality in numbers, comparison of gendered workplaces and assumption of leadership in initiating mobility. At the same time, we observe how geographical mobilities can increase the critical sensibility of youth towards gender inequalities, contributing to new conceptualisation of agentic responses to structural constraints.

Cultural Policy Yearbook 2019: Forced Migration and Cultural Production

Ayd?n ?ktisat Fakültesi Dergisi

Migration Letters

Migration Letters

Border Crossing

Meltem ?zmir Akdeniz Akademisi Dergisi

Journal of International Migration and Integration

The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Mobility and Educational Migration

The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Mobility and Educational Migration

Politics of (Dis)integration