This edited volume explores core questions on education and transnational mobility in a time characterized by a global pandemic, recasting them through the lenses of regimes, experiences, and aspirations. The volume brings together 20 short essays in the form of letters addressed to the coronavirus and written by international students , together with eight striking illustrations that depict emotive scenes from the essays, and eight academic commentaries that analytically link these personal narratives to broader societal structures. This book represents a timely intervention, providing an intimate glimpse into young people’s hopes and the challenges they face concerning their education and mobility.

Yi’En Cheng is a Research Fellow in the Asian Migration cluster at Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He maintains an active research portfolio in the areas of international student and youth mobilities, higher education and globalisation, and young people’s citizenships and politics. He has been a guest editor for Special Issues of Space and Polity (2020), Area (2019), and Journal of Intercultural Studies (2018).