Transnational youth mobility, education and migration are often looked at through different lenses, depending on social context. Mobility with regard to schooling, study or work is encouraged for high-skilled professionals and their relatives but often thwarted for the low-skilled, giving rise to a division into classes of privileged and disadvantaged migrants (Levitt et al. 2017: 5). This hierarchization is reflected in different public and scientific discourses on education: ‘mobility’ is positively connoted, and ‘migration’ is related to poverty and issues of ‘integration’ (Faist 2013: 1640-1644). Based on case studies, this chapter looks at migration, or transnational mobility, as an educational strategy in different social contexts.