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There’s still a very long way to go before anyone gets to use the scheme in practice.
More than 60 Labour MPs have signed a letter calling on the government to support a youth mobility agreement with the EU.
The discussion has so far been derailed by lingering, toxic politics around Brexit and free movement.
Trips to their home countries by migrant youth help them create and update their relationship with the countries their families come from.
During the COVID-19 crisis, some medical students at school in Pokhara, Nepal, went to rural Himalayan villages to teach about the virus. Others go home to challenge social inequities.
Long before coronavirus hit Australia we were moving less between states and regions. Some worry about economic impacts, but a greater concern is inequality if some people find themselves ‘trapped’.
In its Brexit white paper, the UK government proposed a new UK-EU youth mobility scheme. But the details remain vague.
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