posted on 2020-01-10, 11:04authored byRuth Cheung Judge, Matej Blazek, James Esson
This editorial outlines a research agenda for critical exploration of transnational youth mobilities centred on three concepts: emotions, inequity, and temporality. This agenda offers novel perspectives on the interplay between geographies of social difference and the multiscalar forces governing and being made through mobility. Emotions advance theorisations of agency by providing a generative lens to examine how aspirations, social relationships, and political subjectivities intersect to inform young people's lifeworlds and mobilities. Critical analyses of how youth navigate challenging structural conditions are shown to be sharpened by considering the mutually constitutive nature of inequity and (im)mobility. A temporal lens reveals how youth mobilities are driven, experienced, and shaped by structural and social dynamics including, but not limited to, precarity, border regimes, and intergenerationality. We conclude by charting how further explorations into the diverse emotions and temporalities of youth mobility, centred on questions of inequity, can significantly advance scholarly debates within and beyond population geography.
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: CHEUNG JUDGE, R., BLAZEK, M. and ESSON, J., 2020. Editorial: Transnational youth mobilities: Emotions, inequities,and temporalities. Population, Space and Place, doi:10.1002/psp.2307, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2307. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.