ABSTRACT
Transnational networks are not limited to the much-discussed circuity of flows, measurable movements of capital, people, information and commodities. They also reflect and shape lines of meaning, the experience of lives lived; they invoke memories, hopes and social relationships across a distended social field. This chapter substantiates, with detailed examples, some of the theoretical concepts, namely ideas around mobilities (and education). It is organised into two principal parts: the first section elaborates some 'portraits' of transnational mobilities, to provide an in-depth and rich discussion of some specific and pertinent case studies. The second section offers additional reflections on these portraits, drawing out some relevant themes to explore in more detail, again with reference to empirical examples taken from extant scholarship. Transnationalism offers a different view of students' mobilities that avoids automatically prioritising the nation-state as a 'unit' of study.
