ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with sketching out the theoretical framework of the study, where gender inscriptions are explored in relation to different forms of capital. It explains the discipline and tradition of social and economic geography. The chapter focuses on space and time divisions in young people's everyday lives that co-produce young people's identity as well as their career paths. It discusses the immobility and spatial restrictions in youth's day-to-day life, and then return to how this is a key issue for future aspirations. The chapter explains the growing research field of student migration and the symbolic value of mobility. Mobility patterns have been explored at different levels, such as gender ideologies of personal mobility, everyday travel patterns and uneven power dynamics that constrain movement. The chapter focuses on a qualitative study of students in 12th standard in a Christian private school in Thiruvananthapuram.
