ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the relationship between education and international migration/mobility, focusing on the reproduction of social (dis)advantage. First, student and academic mobility are investigated because the main purpose of their international mobility is closely interlinked with education yet different processes of stratification are pinpointed. Second, the link between labour migration and education is examined highlighting formal and informal recognition of educational credentials in different social contexts. Third, second-generation migrants’ access to education systems and educational attainment in the countries of immigration were reviewed centring on the disadvantages of intergenerational social mobility. This chapter argues that social positions and the ways in which they are evaluated by a variety of actors are crucial in access to, and distribution of, resources that are crucial in the reproduction of social (dis)advantage. Values to education and jobs, and thus social position, were once assigned within national frameworks, now are achieved transnationally involving multiple actors.
