Migration Letters January 2022 Volume: 19, No: 1, pp. 1 – 2 ISSN: 1741-8984 (Print) ISSN: 1741-8992 (Online) journals.tplondon.com/ml Migration Letters All rights reserved @ 2004-2022 Transnational Press London Received: 10 January 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v19i1.2099 Editorial for the Special Issue on Migration, Education, and Youth Ana Vila Freyer 1 and Sümeyra Buran 2 Youth studies is a growing area within migration scholarship. It is evident that migration of children, unaccompanied children and children within refugee flows are significantly higher than general migration flows. We have evidence of this, for example, in the case of Syrian exodus since the outbreak of civil war in the country in 2011 (Yazgan et al., 2015). Kulu- Glasgow et al. (2019), Vila Freyer & Özerim (2020), and Vila Freyer and Meza Gonzalez (2021) are the recent collections of studies on youth in migration published by Transnational Press London alone. In the last couple of years, hundreds of articles and book chapters on youth migration have been published elsewhere. The Migration Conferences, Migration Letters proudly supports, have offered a venue for discussions on the topic since the beginning in 2011, and it has included a special track on youth migration to foster research in this particular topic. It is important to highlight the significance of youth for domestic and international migration flows. The young population including children, adolescents and young adults aged up to 30 constitute nearly half of all migrants around the world (Vila Freyer & Özerim, 2020). The weight of these young migrants, however, does not translate into theoretical perspectives despite a bourgeoning migration literature exists. To an extent, it is understandable that children and youth are often dependents and appear along with their migrating parents; however, they are also key agents in migration processes as well as in the process of settlement and integration. They are part of family strategies to reduce risks as they send remittances (see Martin, 2016; Alleluyanatha & Treasure, 2021). They are part of integration strategies (see Carignani et al. 2020) while also being architects of building transnational spaces at schools (Simsek, 2013; Sakiz, 2016; Alkhawaldeh, 2018). We are still unclear about how these processes work, how identities are formed in diaspora (see El Berni, 2018). In this special issue, we aimed at encouraging more debates and research into various aspects of youth migration. In this issue, we present a selection of papers discussing from a multidisciplinary perspective and referring to various geographies, the particularities of young migrants, their decisions to return, determinants of their migration, social networks, integration, education, and their role in the diaspora. Our goal is to continue the debate on youth migration and point out the questions and theoretical challenges to further our understanding of human mobility. Experiences of two young Mexican immigrant women from the US benefiting from the advance parole program visiting Mexico is the opening article in the issue. Evgenia Anastasiou draws out attention to the experiences of medical students and their migration plans during the Pandemic. Following on the same track, Kamninga and colleagues look into the role of 1 Ana Vila Freyer, Universidad Latina de México, México. E-mail: ana6509@yahoo.com. 2 Sümeyra Buran, University of Florida, Department of English, United States. E-mail: sumeyra19@hotmail.com.