Social inequality in a ‘hyper-mobile’ society: intra-national mobilities and formal education in China

This study builds upon existing research on educational mobilities in China by exploring how families from across the socio-economic spectrum have utilised various forms of spatial mobility practices to access opportunities and achieve social through education. We draw data forty interviews with Master’s degree students at an elite Chinese university three class factions: ‘non-affluent’, ‘lower-middle’, ‘upper-middle-class’, employ concept motility or capacity be mobile, alongside concepts Bauman Giddens’ work modernity, understand socially classed nature mobility. argue that often overlooked ‘educational imperative’ shapes trajectories many, but manifests markedly different ways along lines class. While backgrounds may what is important level control individuals over variety frequency they undertake.