Young people of today travel and are more mobile than ever before. They have a
considerable appetite for travelling and practically unlimited opportunities for
mobility. Not only physical/bodily travelling, but also virtual travels via the
Internet, or communicative travels via email, (mobile) phones and so on are
separately and in combination a marked feature in everyday life among young people
(see Tully,2002).To today's youth, mobility is a fact of life that they
embrace with enthusiasm and, in a number of ways, mobility sets the agenda for and
constantly transforms their social life.It influences their way of perceiving and
understanding the world, which in turn makes them demand a still more and
increasingly complex mobility.
The present article is based on a study of the meaning of mobility in modern everyday
life (Jensen, 2001),1 and focus will be on mobility among young people in
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