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\nFor Erasmus students in non-selective fields, studying at a foreign institution is rewarding.\u00a0This valorization is not only felt as a gratification because of the personalization of his career by the student, but results in a concrete and material return on investment, which is verified objectively by the path of Malia or Lo\u00efc for not take only two examples.<\/p>\n

Malia is awarded a research allowance for a thesis in history, which she passes brilliantly in less than four years.\u00a0A few months after her defense, she obtained an executive position on permanent contract as scientific manager of a private institute.\u00a0Today, she participates as a scientific leader in the creation of another institute and has also recently been offered a postdoctoral contract in Luxembourg.\u00a0Lo\u00efc enters the IAE (Institute of Business Administration), where classes are taught in English.\u00a0He is currently a manager in a multinational company in Lyon, he plans an internal mobility to train in the United States.<\/p>\n

For these students, as we have seen, studying abroad is the subject of a differentiation approach with a view to profitability, it is a thoughtful step, a strategy within the organization of a training project, in a period of inflation of qualifications.<\/p>\n

A logic of distinction?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Many Erasmus graduates, who are now abroad, believe that they have been curbed in their desire to climb the social ladder by stigmas that are based on their studies or by an exacerbated competition in their region of origin.\u00a0In France, graduates of provincial universities often use Europe as an alternative route to the “rise to the capital”, a traditional path for those who wish, and still wish, a career (\u00a0Smith, Favell, 2006<\/a>\u00a0).<\/p>\n

To emigrate to Paris to find a job up to one’s qualifications is always a borrowed route, but perhaps more exceptional, because the competition is exacerbated.\u00a0Faced with the proliferation of the offer of university training, recruiters fall back on “sure values”, that is to say on graduates of the Parisian grandes \u00e9coles.\u00a0Due to new information and communication technologies, time and space are shrinking.<\/p>\n

Reversible mobility, as experienced by Malia, who has moved to Paris, then returned to where she was formed, in the PACA region, and returns to the north, is symptomatic of this new universe of mobility experiences. more and more close together in time and distant in space.\u00a0The “return to the country” in the south, which she desired, was painful for her, because of difficult working conditions compared to her experiences in northern Europe, hence her move to emigrate again. . […]<\/p>\n

It is in relation to each of the national and regional contexts that it is necessary to distinguish between situations where study abroad is an almost obligatory stage of social success (for some Italian students), pathways refuges in a massive university (for a part of French students), or choices that may compromise national positions if the distance becomes permanent (for some British students).\u00a0It goes without saying that these types do not exhaust the diversity of the social issues of expatriation, and that within each country can coexist the three situations.<\/p>\n

But among all mobile students, the terms of the choice between international trajectory and return to the country are radically different.\u00a0Moreover, when the Italian expatriate Erasmus think about a possible return to Italy or to the south of Europe, the fields of the possible are tightening, as underlines Alessandro, engineer and Paolo, researcher:<\/p>\n

“In Italy, it is not always possible or interesting to start a career because wages are too low, and the people you depend on do not always live up to their qualifications.\u00a0(Alessandro, engineer, 26 years old)<\/em><\/p>\n

“The reasons for my emigration, as I think most Italians in England, are opportunities for study and work.\u00a0[…] The desire to do something for my country and to improve it is strong but Italy is a country in which I have fewer opportunities to work in my field.\u00a0(Paolo, researcher, 40 years old)<\/p>\n