This study examines intra-national youth mobility in transition to higher education from regional city areas in Finland. This often taken-for-granted socio-spatial mobility in educational transitions is analysed with school ethnographic data in regional city areas in Finland and longitudinal interviews with secondary school graduates. This project offers geographical and temporal examinations of the competitive transition to higher education as lived in youths' everyday practices and produces knowledge on the educational and socio-spatial mobility. Hence, this study provides new and critical insights to the normalized geographical mobility in transition to higher education.

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