TY  - INPR
JF  - Sociology
AV  - public
ID  - discovery10120827
N1  - This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Lficense (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
A1  - Keating, A
PB  - SAGE Publications
Y1  - 2021/04/29/
N2  - This article seeks to problematise the perception that young people are committed cosmopolitans by highlighting some of the contradictory and contingent practices that young White British youth engage in. To do so, I explore a contradiction that emerged in my recent projects when young people talked about mobility and migration, namely how some White British youth want (and assume) freedom of movement for themselves but are opposed to freedom of movement when it involves immigrants coming to Britain. Here I argue that this can be viewed as an effort to enjoy the benefits of a cosmopolitan lifestyle (particularly through geographical mobility) while nonetheless wishing to limit opportunities for cultural Others to do likewise. This manifestation, I suggest, should be seen as a one-way form of cosmopolitanism that is not just contradictory, but also a reflection of the mixed messages young people in Britain receive about mobility, migration, multiculturalism, citizenship and individualism.
KW  - attitudes towards immigrants
KW  -  cosmopolitanism
KW  -  cosmopolitan practices
KW  -  migration
KW  -  mobility
KW  -  young people
KW  -  youth
TI  - Mobility for Me but Not for Others: The Contradictory Cosmopolitan Practices of Contemporary White British Youth
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038521999565
ER  -