Conclusions

Chapter Six connects the empirical analysis back to broader conceptual debates about youth, aspiration, and mobility and thus highlights the relevance of this research with a group of young people largely overlooked by scholars and policymakers. Through an in-depth analysis of young people’s time-space-strategies and their current positions within existing socio-spatial hierarchies, this book develops an understanding of young people’s expressions of agency in such a way as to move beyond restrictive stereotypes of youth. It also provides new perspectives on the limitations and the potential of politics of aspiration-building and throws light on the significance of spatial (im)mobility for people’s life chances.