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Youth Mobilities, Aspirations and Pathways
Many young people today are looking to create global careers and lifestyles, and see living abroad as providing exciting new skills and experiences, or just a break from the traditional life-path. But what actually happens in the long-term to careers, social and family lives and sense of belonging when you are ‘on the move’? This is the focus of the Youth Mobilities, Aspirations and Pathways project.
The current phase of this project - Youth Futures After Mobility (YFAM) - explores what happens after mobility, as young people decide whether to stay, return, or settle. How do experiences of mobility influence young people’s life choices, careers, social ties and belonging, as they transition into adulthood?
Read more about about some of our findings here.
Deakin University and Edith Cowan University acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands, skies, and waterways on which our students, staff, and communities come together. As a collaborative team researching through virtually and physically constructed places across time, we pay our deep respects to the Ancestors and Elders of Wadawurrung Country, Eastern Maar Country, Wurundjeri Country, and the Noongar people, upon whose lands our physical campuses stand. We extend our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, past and present.
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