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Currently, substantial attention is being paid to flexibility in the working life of young people. Stability is a conceptual companion of flexibility; however, its role has been vastly underestimated in the literature on working life. The key aim of this article is to explore the processes of meaning-making concerning work stability among young people with mobility experiences. Focusing on the intersection between career studies, mobility studies, and youth studies, the aim is to answer the following research questions. (1) How do young people with mobility experiences perceive stability in the context of the labour market? (2) What are the roles of spatial mobility and previous work experience in the perception of work stability? Based on qualitative data, the process of defining, redefining, questioning and denying the concept of work stability is discussed, showing that this process is subject to continuous verification and re-evaluation based on previous work experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

International mobility has become a significant part of the life experiences of a growing number of Polish youths since the enlargement of the EU in 2004, influencing young people's transitions from education to work or transitions across different labour markets. The key aim of this paper is to explore socio-occupational sequences of young people considering spatial and temporal dynamism of the process of mobility. Focusing on the intersection between youth and migration studies, we aim to answer the following research questions: (1) What are the socio-occupational sequences of young people 'on the move'? (2) How mobility capacities and imperatives determine the flow of sequences and (3) How mobility patterns collocate with sequences' shapes? Based on Social Sequence Analysis, we have distinguished four types of 'mobile sequences' of young adults: (1) the 'upward sequence' when spatial mobility accelerates social mobility; (2) the 'yo-yo sequence', where transnational mobility causes 'return social mobility'; (3) the 'zigzag sequence', involving up-and-down patterns in social mobility; (4) the 'flat sequence', where spatial mobility has no impact on the objective dimension of socio-occupational sequences, but mobility strongly influences human capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]