ABSTRACT
The background for this special issue extends at least a decade back in time, when the two of us (Mariëtte de Haan and Kevin M. Leander), along with other colleagues such as Sandra Ponzanesi of the Wired Up project, were reading works such as Appadurai’s Modernity at Large (1996). Then, nearly a decade after Appadurai had penned his landmark book, we were trying to conceive of the relations of the movements he was concerned with to youth culture and to youth learning opportunities. How might we translate such insights on the fluid and shifting ‘scapes’ of modern life, including especially, the movements of people (ethnoscapes) and movements of media (medioscapes) into an understanding of learning opportunities and learning connections in a world of increasing flows? In particular, how are these flows or forms of migration co-constituted or otherwise related to one another in modern, global life? And for whom?
