This special issue focuses on the geographical and spatialized mobilities related to youth transitions to post-secondary education and employment. The “mobility turn” in social sciences in the last decade recognizes that life is increasingly organized and shaped by mobilities (and immobilities) across varying spatial and temporal scales. Yet these mobilities have only recently been examined and theorized as central to understanding the complexity and diversity of young people’s experiences. The collection of articles in this special issue presents a multiplicity of young people’s relationships to mobilities, particularly as they pursue post-secondary education and employment. The papers are concerned with: (a) the motivations for and expectations of imagined mobility (the innumerable reasons why youth choose, or are compelled, to move or stay), whether focused on the outmigration or inmigration of mobile youth; (b) the lived experiences that youth have in their mobility practices (focusing on multistranded relationships between places of origin and destination, or recognizing the temporality of that mobility); and (c) the value that these youth mobility studies have for policy issues and policy recommendations. The papers in this issue are case studies concerned with youth mobility prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. They use qualitative and quantitative methods, representing inter- and cross-disciplinary approaches from anthropology, sociology, education, communication, and rural development studies. They derive from a collaboration through the On the Move Partnership, an 8-year interdisciplinary research initiative with a key focus on young people’s employment- and education-related geographical mobilities in Canada.

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特刊简介：青年向教育和就业的转变：流动性的视角

本期特刊关注与青年过渡到中学后教育和就业相关的地理和空间流动性。过去十年社会科学的“流动性转向”认识到，生活越来越多地被不同空间和时间尺度的流动性（和静止性）组织和塑造。然而，这些流动性直到最近才被研究和理论化为理解年轻人经历的复杂性和多样性的核心。本期特刊的文章集展示了年轻人与流动性的多种关系，尤其是在他们追求高等教育和就业的过程中。这些论文关注：（a）想象流动的动机和期望（青年选择或被迫搬家或留下的无数原因），是关注流动青年的外迁还是外迁；(b) 青年在流动实践中的亲身经历（侧重于出发地和目的地之间的多链关系，或认识到流动的时间性）；(c) 这些青年流动性研究对政策问题和政策建议的价值。本期中的论文是与 COVID-19 大流行之前的青年流动性有关的案例研究。他们使用定性和定量方法，代表来自人类学、社会学、教育、传播和农村发展研究的跨学科和跨学科方法。它们源于通过 On the Move Partnership 的合作，