The aim of the project 'Education, mobility and citizenship' is to explore the role of education in geographical and social mobility strategies of three different groups of migrants: young Nepalese who enrol in vocational colleges and institutions of higher education; young Filipina women who participate in the cultural exchange programme of the au pair system; and Ukrainian youths who engage in agricultural internships.

As a new category of transnational migrants in Denmark they share common traits: 1) They have begun migrating to Denmark during the last 10 years, 2) they are in Denmark on educational programmes and are granted temporary visas and 3) they are not expected to become integrated into Danish society on a permanent basis.

The project will examine how young educational migrants seek to establish a life for themselves while in Denmark and how educational programmes help them acquire new skills that in a long-term perspective can improve not just their own social and economic position, but also that of their families left behind.

The project thus sheds light on the double-edged importance of education for young migrants as a way to gain societal membership in new locations and as a short and long-term strategy of geographical and social mobility.