Mazzucato Valentina, Haagsman Karlijn
Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
J Ethn Migr Stud. 2022 Feb 17;48(11):2473-2492. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2022.2031926. eCollection 2022.
Large-scale research on migrant youth categorises youth along two lines: ethnicity and generation. Yet insights from smaller-scale qualitative studies indicate that it is important to experiment with categories based on mobility. While these studies have shown that young people's mobility affects their identities, educational resilience, sense of belonging and sense of self, findings have not led to new thinking about categories used in large-scale migrant youth research. Given this lacuna, we investigate young people's mobility, understood here as long or short trips to countries other than where they reside, based on a large-scale survey in three European countries ( = 2019). We find that travels are common amongst secondary school pupils of both migrant and non-migrant background and that youth with a migration background primarily travel to their or their parents' 'home' country. While lower socio-economic status is associated with less frequent travel for the general population, it is not linked to the frequency of travel of youth with a migration background. In today's globalised world, where there are important distinctions between those who can travel and those who cannot, our findings call for putting the mobility of young people at the heart of analytical categories.
种族和代际。然而，小规模定性研究的见解表明，尝试基于流动性进行分类很重要。虽然这些研究表明年轻人的流动性会影响他们的身份认同、教育适应力、归属感和自我认知，但研究结果并未引发对大规模移民青年研究中所用分类的新思考。鉴于这一空白，我们基于对三个欧洲国家（n = 2019）的大规模调查，研究年轻人的流动性，这里将其理解为前往他们居住国以外国家的长短途旅行。我们发现，无论是有移民背景还是无移民背景的中学生都经常旅行，而且有移民背景的年轻人主要前往他们自己或其父母的“祖国”。虽然社会经济地位较低与普通人群旅行频率较低有关，但它与有移民背景的年轻人的旅行频率并无关联。在当今全球化的世界中，能旅行的人和不能旅行的人之间存在重要差异，我们的研究结果呼吁将年轻人的流动性置于分析分类的核心。
