Erasmus students' motivations in motion: understanding super-mobility in higher education

This paper looks at youth mobility as an ongoing, dynamic, processual experience in the making of an educational trajectory. By exploring the experiences of students who have undertaken more than one mobility experience under the Erasmus + program, we reflect on how underlying motivations change over the course of subsequent mobility experiences. In contrast to existing research, where the focus has been on reported motivations for one-off mobility experience, we discuss the latent motivations driving super-mobile educational trajectories. In doing so, we observe the ongoing reconfiguration of these trajectories through the concept of spatial reflexivity, which results in articulated and augmentative dynamics over time. Methodologically, the paper is based on qualitative material collected in person and online with such mobile young people across Europe.
Author(s): Valentina Cuzzocrea [sup.1] , Ewa Krzaklewska [sup.2] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.7763.5, 0000 0004 1755 3242, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Università Degli Studi Di Cagliari, , Cagliari, Italy [...]