ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes that concepts, ideas, and perspectives from the discipline of geography provide a framework for navigating the ambilocation of education abroad, in which students experience a complex and ambiguous borderland between two or more simultaneous and overlapping states of being. The inherent inter-and transdisciplinarity of geography, as well as its focus on space and place, confers an obvious advantage as an organizing framework in education abroad. As the focus of the ASAPI workshop attests, there are also significant pressures on the US education abroad community in Ireland to replicate the housing bubbles of many American campuses, even as studying abroad may be perceived as providing a break from these. The intersection of geographical isolation with digital technologies is particularly challenging for education abroad practitioners. The resulting skills students gain will reap significant benefits for their future academic and professional endeavors across the educational continuum.
