Abstract
Increasingly, work on geographies of education is attentive both to the large-scale patterns and flows of student mobilities (globally) and to their everyday spatialities – what might be described as banal and mundane educational experiences. Both perspectives are vital when attempting to understand contemporary student and young people’s geographies. In this chapter, we use international student mobilities as a lens through which to consider the benefits of enlisting micro, meso, and macro perspectives. These perspectives highlight different issues but together reveal the importance of geography – international student mobilities are fundamentally geographical and played out at a variety of scales. The chapter considers global flows, regional dynamics, urban mobilities, and campus/classroom experiences. To conclude, the chapter discusses what links might be drawn with conversations around younger (pre-university) children’s educational mobilities – what we know and what gaps in the literature remain.