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Accepted Paper:

Students' mobility in Spain: school support mechanisms and discourses  
Ábel Bereményi (Universitat de Barcelona) Silvia Carrasco (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Jordi Pamies Rovira (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Paper short abstract:

This paper will focus on the complex phenomenon of students' mobility in Spain, exploring corresponding school support mechanisms and school staff's discourses.

Paper long abstract:

The unexpected increase of students' mobility in pre-university, mainly in compulsory school stages has been considered as one of the most debated problems in Spain over the last decade. The integration process of these students and its administrative management are conceptualized in a very diverse manner by local and regional administrations and in particular by schools. Mobility does not tend to be perceived as a process that is structurally linked to the present social and economic dynamics; or to recent changes of the productive structure and residential models. Rather, students' mobility is interpreted as a problem, fundamentally related to international migrations and its management in a local level.

Through a one-year-long explorative research project (2010-11), we analysed motives and impacts of students' mobility aiming to identify mobility, settlement and schooling patterns by different population groups. In our on-going R+D+i project (2013-15) financed by the National Programme for Fundamental Research Projects (Spanish Government), we aim at focusing on the motives and the impact of mobility through specifically educational factors, such as family strategies of school choice. A comparative analysis of quantitative data and interviews with key stakeholders (local administration staff, school personnel and families) has allowed us to reconstruct the complex subjacent dimensions of the phenomenon. This paper will present some results focusing on school support mechanisms and teaching staff's discourses on the phenomenon in a variety of schools in selected municipalities.

Panel P57
Migration, mobility and fluid identities
  Session 1