Educational Mobility

Education and Universalism in Europe. When Education Supports Democracy

The increasing of unemployment, social insecurity and poverty are making many
Europeans contest the democratic foundations of Europe. It is a world systemic crisis that,
on the one hand, nurtures the migration flows, on the other hand, it intensifies the
individualist tenets of neoliberalism and contemporarily the hostility against migrants to
which the social insecurity is often attributed because in a sense they are the evident proof
of the end of welfare assured by Nation-State in the past. In this context, it is relevant to

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